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Digital biomarkers: Convergence of digital health technologies and biomarkers

Srikanth Vasudevan, Anindita Saha, Michelle E. Tarver, Bakul Patel • npj Digital Medicine (2022)

Over the last decade, increasing digitization across the healthcare continuum has revolutionized medical research, diagnostics, and therapeutics. This digitization has led to rapid advancements in the development and adoption of digital hea...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00583-z PMC: 8956713

Health technology assessment in Switzerland

Pedro Koch, Julian Schilling, Marlène Laeubli Loud, Florian Mitscherlich et al. • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2009)

OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: To review Switzerland's mixed public and private healthcare system with regard to health technology assessment (HTA). RESULTS: In the past, remarkable work in HTA was done. Accomplishments include the following: (i) ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462309090606

Health technology assessment in Singapore

Keng Ho Pwee • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2009)

The Republic of Singapore is an island city-state in Southeast Asia. Its population enjoys good health and the Singapore Ministry of Health's mission is to promote good health and reduce illness, ensure access to good and affordable health ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462309090692

The Emergence of AI-Based Wearable Sensors for Digital Health Technology: A Review

Shaghayegh Shajari, Kirankumar Kuruvinashetti, Amin Komeili, Uttandaraman Sundararaj • Sensors (2023)

Disease diagnosis and monitoring using conventional healthcare services is typically expensive and has limited accuracy. Wearable health technology based on flexible electronics has gained tremendous attention in recent years for monitoring...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s23239498 PMC: 10708748

Medicine and health technology in 2018

Ryan L. Kerstein • Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England (2018)

2018 was a pretty big year for medicine and health technology. A new Health Secretary took over the political reins and reshaped the agenda ‘to revolutionise the NHS with new technology’. The RCS established the Commission on the Future of ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1308/rcsbull.2019.28

International practices in health technology assessment and public financing of digital health technologies: recommendations for Hungary

Fruzsina Mezei, Krisztián Horváth, M. Pálfi, Kornélia Lovas et al. • Frontiers in Public Health (2023)

Background: Evaluating and integrating digital health technologies is a critical component of a national healthcare ecosystem in the 2020s and is expected to even increase in significance. Design: The paper gives an overview of internationa...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1197949 PMC: 10501404

Evaluation of Blood-Based Antibody Rapid Testing for HIV Early Therapy: A Meta-Analysis of the Evidence

Xiaojie Huang, Xinchao Liu, Jieqing Chen, Yugang Bao et al. • Frontiers in Immunology (2018)

BackgroundWestern blot (WB) assay is considered the gold standard test for HIV infection confirmation. However, it requires technical expertise and is quite time-consuming. WHO recommends blood-based rapid diagnosis to achieve same-day test...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01458

Methods for studying health disparities in U.S. nursing homes: a scoping review

Hanne Marie Rostad, Lucille Xiang, Elizabeth M. White • BMC Health Services Research (2025)

Abstract Background Health disparities exist across healthcare settings, including nursing homes, contributing to preventable differences in care quality. Health disparities are a global issue, yet most studies on nursing home health dispar...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12913-025-13071-3

Barriers and facilitators of retention in care after cervical cancer screening: patients’ and healthcare providers’ perspectives

Judith Owokuhaisa, Eleanor Turyakira, Frank Ssedyabane, Deusdedit Tusubira et al. • BMC Women's Health (2024)

Abstract Background Cervical cancer continues to threaten women’s health, especially in low-resource settings. Regular follow-up after screening and treatment is an effective strategy for monitoring treatment outcomes. Consequently, underst...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12905-024-03343-1

Emerging New Era of Mobile Health Technologies

Young‐Taek Park • Healthcare Informatics Research (2016)

medical records [6].Patients are also able to reduce their direct and indirect healthcare costs through reduction of the need for healthcare clinic visits or hospitalization [7,8].Regarding mHealth, there is an international conference, "mH...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.4258/hir.2016.22.4.253 PMC: 5116535

Health technology in perspective

Tae‐Il Kim • Journal of Periodontal & Implant Science (2015)

The ongoing development of information and communication technology (ICT) is taking the healthcare industry to the next level. It allows an independent healthcare system by which anyone can easily obtain tne real-time measurement of individ...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.5051/jpis.2015.45.1.1 PMC: 4341201

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY REASSESSMENT: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE

Gail MacKean, Tom Noseworthy, Adam G. Elshaug, Laura E. Leggett et al. • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2013)

BACKGROUND: Health technology reassessment (HTR) is "a structured, evidence-based assessment of the clinical, social, ethical, and economic effects of a technology currently used in the healthcare system, to inform optimal use of that techn...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-sa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462313000494 PMC: 3846380

Health technology assessment in Canada

Renaldo N. Battista, Brigitte Côté, Matthew J. Hodge, Don Husereau • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2009)

Canada's health system is a unique combination of public financing and private provision. With the significant government role in financing health services, health technology assessment (HTA) has found a ready audience as a form of policy r...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462309090424

Change in lifestyle with health technology

Sachin K. Parappagoudar, Sana Saima, K Haneesha, Chavi Jain et al. • International Journal of Research in Management (2023)

To preserve excellent health and prevent chronic diseases, one must adopt a healthy lifestyle. Yet, altering one's way of life can be difficult, particularly without the necessary resources and assistance. Luckily, new opportunities to enco...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.33545/26648792.2023.v5.i1a.67

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE ON E-HEALTH/M-HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES: EVALUATING THE TRANSPARENCY AND THOROUGHNESS

Vladimir Vuković, Carlo Favaretti, Walter Ricciardi, Chiara de Waure • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2018)

OBJECTIVES: Evaluation is crucial for integration of e-Health/m-Health into healthcare systems and health technology assessment (HTA) could offer sound methodological basis for these evaluations. Aim of this study was to look for HTA report...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462317004512

Wearable Health Technology and Electronic Health Record Integration: Scoping Review and Future Directions

Catherine Dinh-Le, Rachel Chuang, Sara Kuppin Chokshi, Devin Mann • JMIR mhealth and uhealth (2019)

BACKGROUND: Due to the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and legislation on meaningful use in recent decades, health systems are increasingly interdependent on EHR capabilities, offerings, and innovations to better capture patien...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/12861 PMC: 6746089

IMPLEMENTING THE FINDINGS OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENTS

Michael Drummond, Helen L. A. Weatherly • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2000)

OBJECTIVE: To explore whether more could be done to increase the implementation of health technology assessment (HTA) findings. METHODS: A literature review was undertaken to identify the main barriers to implementation, the mechanisms that...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300016111

Ethics in Health Technology Assessment: Understanding Health Technologies as Policies

Mita K. Giacomini, Shawn Winsor, Julia Abelson • Healthcare Management Forum (2013)

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies strive to broaden their analyses to address more policy-relevant dimensions, including ethics. This trend has been described as transforming HTA to health technology policy analysis. A related soc...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hcmf.2013.04.004