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Aafke Coopmans, a PhD student at Tilburg University, and her team from the Netherlands recently tackled this challenge in a scoping review published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Their paper,

The Art of Collaboration: Making eHealth Work

eHealth holds a great deal of promise, offering solutions from virtual reality for pain management to wearable devices for continuous health monitoring. But turning these innovations into reality is far from simple. It requires a delicate and often complex mix of collaboration between different organizations, from tech companies and academic institutions to hospitals and government bodies.

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Dr. Haley LaMonica and her team conducted a multi-case study to understand how to create a successful digital child-rearing program on a global scale.

Building a Global Digital Parenting Program: Lessons Learned from a Multi-Country Study

Digital technologies have transformed the way we access information and services. In the world of parenting, they offer a powerful way to provide support to families, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, developing a program that works for diverse cultures and contexts is a complex challenge.

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Dr. Levinson, known for his work in consultation liaison psychiatry (psychiatry for the medically ill, especially those with cognitive disorders like dementia), is a co-developer of online resources like igericare.ca and dementiarisk.ca

Empowering Dementia Care Partners: A Digital Solution

Dementia is a growing concern globally. Care partners - often friends, family, or other community members - play a crucial role, supplementing existing formal health systems and providing essential care for people living with dementia. They often do so without formal dementia education and with limited support themselves, leaving many care partners unprepared, overwhelmed, and isolated. This is a challenge that Dr. Anthony Levinson, a psychiatrist, professor, and e-Learning researcher at McMaster University, is dedicated to addressing.

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Dr. Roberto Benzo, an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University and the Director of the Lifestyle Lab, is tackling this head-on. He and his team recently published a paper in JMIR Research Protocols

Unlocking the Power of Wearables for Adults with Lung Cancer

Wearable activity monitors—those handy devices you might wear on your wrist or elsewhere on your body—are increasingly common in health research. They can offer incredible insights into our daily physical activity and even our well-being - but how accurate are they, especially for specific patient populations? This is a crucial question for cancer researchers and clinicians.

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A scoping review published in JMIR Medical Education by Juliana Samson her team examines the post-pandemic literature on virtual simulated placements.

The Promise of Virtual Placements in Healthcare

The landscape of healthcare education underwent a significant transformation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly when it came to students’ practice placements. These work-based training modules, where healthcare students immerse themselves in clinical duties under expert supervision, are not merely supplementary activities. They are the crucible in which theoretical knowledge acquired in university classrooms is forged into practical application and know-how, a vital bridge to becoming competent registered healthcare professionals. Completing a requisite number of hours in these placements is often a non-negotiable condition for licensure.

 

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Dr. Mike Aratow, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Ellipsis Health, recently co-authored a groundbreaking paper published in JMIR AI titled

The Power of Your Voice: How AI is Detecting Depression Severity

Imagine being able to understand the severity of someone's depression just by listening to their voice. It might sound like something out of science fiction, but new research is bringing this possibility closer to reality.

Dr. Mike Aratow, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Ellipsis Health, recently co-authored a groundbreaking paper published in JMIR AI titled "Digital Phenotyping for Detecting Depression Severity in a Large Payor-Provider System: Retrospective Study of Speech and Language Model Performance." This study highlights a significant leap forward in using artificial intelligence to understand mental health.

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Announcement: Eindhoven University of Technology and JMIR Publications Announce Unlimited Open Access Publishing Agreement

JMIR & TU/eindhoven Partner for Open Access

(Eindhoven, Netherlands & Toronto, Canada, July 10, 2025) The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and JMIR Publications, a leading open access publisher of digital health research, are pleased to announce a new agreement that will provide TU/e faculty and affiliated researchers with unlimited opportunities for open access publishing in JMIR's extensive portfolio of journals.

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Dr. Heuvelink's team has developed the Pediatric In-Bore Experience as an extension of their existing solutions, tailored just for kids

Making MRI Scans Less Scary for Kids: A New Approach

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, is an incredibly powerful tool for doctors. It gives them super detailed images they need to figure out what's going on inside a patient's body. But for kids, especially young ones, getting an MRI can be a really stressful experience. Imagine a large, unfamiliar machine, a small space you have to lie still in, and loud noises! It's enough to make anyone anxious, let alone a child.


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