Body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders pose growing public health challenges globally, yet stigmatization and lack of accessible services prevent many affected individuals from seeking timely help. To address this support gap, researchers co-designed JEM, a rule-based conversational agent delivering evidence-based psychoeducation and psychotherapeutic microinterventions targeting cognitive and emotional processing.

How can healthcare move beyond reacting to change and start preparing for what’s next? In this interview, Dr. Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD, guest editor of the Journal of Medical Internet Research theme issue “The Emergence of Medical Futures Studies,” shares how futures methods can help shape a more intentional future for medicine.

With consumer wearables, smartphones, and remote monitoring devices becoming mainstream, patient-generated health data (PGHD) offers a continuous lens into daily living. However, translating raw tracking data into actionable clinical insights during time-constrained consultations presents significant challenges for both patients and healthcare providers.

Voice-based artificial intelligence models have generated significant interest for noninvasive screening of neurological conditions like Parkinson's disease and dementia. However, high classification performance in these models may be driven by age differences between study groups rather than true disease signatures.

Delays in accessing ambulatory care create significant operational strain for health systems and lead to adverse outcomes and diminished experiences for patients. While manual waitlists are resource-intensive and difficult to scale, automated waitlists leverage technology to monitor schedules continuously and send automated notifications to patients when earlier slots open up.

In the fourth and final blog entry of our Healthy Aging® Month series, Eliza Wong, PhD from the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care at The Chinese University of Hong Kong shares insights from her team’s latest research published in JMIR Aging.

In the third post for our Healthy Aging® Month video series, Hsiu-Ping Yueh, PhD fromNational Taiwan University gives an overview of her team’s research published in JMIR Aging. Joining her in the video are two Kebbi social robots, her "co-stars" in studying how technology can tackle social isolation in older adults.

In the second installment of our Healthy Aging® Month series, Baldwin Pok Man Kwan, MPH; a physiotherapist and project officer at Silverchain, shares insights from his team's recent research published in JMIR Aging.

This September for Healthy Aging® Month, JMIR Aging is bringing peer-reviewed science off the page and into daily life. We are spotlighting four articles and their lead authors in a dedicated video series that illustrates the direct connection between academic research and real-world impact. Each feature demonstrates how evidence-based digital health solutions are moving beyond theoretical design to actively empower older adults, caregivers, and technology developers, showing how digital tools can foster independence, purpose, and vitality in everyday living. In our first video feature for the series, Anna Whittaker, PhD from the University of Stirling shares key insights from her research published in JMIR Aging.

African American and Black women report the lowest physical activity levels across demographic groups in the United States, driving elevated rates of preventable cardiometabolic diseases. While researchers increasingly turn to mixed methods to examine how social, cultural, and environmental factors shape exercise behaviors, how effectively are these quantitative and qualitative insights being combined?