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Digital Health Technology

Published September 14, 2020 Calls for Papers Collections

Digital health technologies bring together engineers, computer scientists, behavioral scientists, public health researchers, and clinicians to design technological solutions for patient care and health systems management. This PLOS ONE collection highlights a broad range of digital health research, from technology development to translation of data insights into action, that closes the loop between stakeholders and technologies.

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PLOS ONE Monetary incentives for improving smartphone-measured oral hygiene behaviors in young children: A randomized pilot trial
July 30, 2020 Justin S. White, Francisco Ramos-Gomez, Jenny X. Liu, Bonnie Jue, Tracy L. Finlayson, Jeremiah R. Garza, Alexandra H. Crawford, Sarit Helman, William Santo, Jing Cheng, James G. Kahn, Stuart A. Gansky
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PLOS ONE Virtual patients as a tool for training pre-registration pharmacists and increasing their preparedness to practice: A qualitative study
August 31, 2020 Jessica Thompson, Simon White, Stephen Chapman
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PLOS ONE Telemedicine in the OECD: An umbrella review of clinical and cost-effectiveness, patient experience and implementation
August 13, 2020 Nkiruka D. Eze, Céu Mateus, Tiago Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi
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PLOS ONE PuzzleWalk: A theory-driven iterative design inquiry of a mobile game for promoting physical activity in adults with autism spectrum disorder
September 10, 2020 Bogoan Kim, Daehyoung Lee, Aehong Min, Seungwon Paik, Georgia Frey, Scott Bellini, Kyungsik Han, Patrick Shih
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PLOS ONE Pseudo-colouring an ECG enables lay people to detect QT-interval prolongation regardless of heart rate
August 27, 2020 Alaa Alahmadi, Alan Davies, Markel Vigo, Caroline Jay
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PLOS ONE Patients’ and healthcare professionals’ perspectives towards technology-assisted diabetes self-management education. A qualitative systematic review
August 17, 2020 Sneha Rajiv Jain, Yuan Sui, Cheng Han Ng, Zhi Xiong Chen, Lay Hoon Goh, Shefaly Shorey
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PLOS ONE Correlation between brain volume and retinal photoreceptor outer segment volume in normal aging and neurodegenerative diseases
September 3, 2020 Atsuro Uchida, Jagan A. Pillai, Robert Bermel, Stephen E. Jones, Hubert Fernandez, James B. Leverenz, Sunil K. Srivastava, Justis P. Ehlers
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PLOS ONE National Ambulance Surveillance System: A novel method using coded Australian ambulance clinical records to monitor self-harm and mental health-related morbidity
July 31, 2020 Dan I. Lubman, Cherie Heilbronn, Rowan P. Ogeil, Jessica J. Killian, Sharon Matthews, Karen Smith, Emma Bosley, Rosemary Carney, Kevin McLaughlin, Alex Wilson, Matthew Eastham, Carol Shipp, Katrina Witt, Belinda Lloyd, Debbie Scott
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PLOS ONE Mobile applications for elderly healthcare: A systematic mapping
July 30, 2020 Joseane O. V. Paiva, Rossana M. C. Andrade, Pedro Almir M. de Oliveira, Paulo Duarte, Ismayle S. Santos, Aline L. de P. Evangelista, Rebecca L. Theophilo, Luiz Odorico M. de Andrade, Ivana Cristina de H. C. Barreto
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PLOS ONE Impact of an acceptance facilitating intervention on psychotherapists’ acceptance of blended therapy
August 12, 2020 Harald Baumeister, Yannik Terhorst, Cora Grässle, Maren Freudenstein, Rüdiger Nübling, David Daniel Ebert
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PLOS ONE A smartphone-enabled wireless and batteryless implantable blood flow sensor for remote monitoring of prosthetic heart valve function
January 14, 2020 Bernhard Vennemann, Dominik Obrist, Thomas Rösgen
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PLOS ONE Identification and characterization of tweets related to the 2015 Indiana HIV outbreak: A retrospective infoveillance study
August 26, 2020 Mingxiang Cai, Neal Shah, Jiawei Li, Wen-Hao Chen, Raphael E. Cuomo, Nick Obradovich, Tim K. Mackey
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Jair Lázaro

PLOS ONE Machine learning detection of Atrial Fibrillation using wearable technology
January 24, 2020 Mark Lown, Michael Brown, Chloë Brown, Arthur M. Yue, Benoy N. Shah, Simon J. Corbett, George Lewith, Beth Stuart, Michael Moore, Paul Little
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Laura Mitulla

PLOS ONE Effectiveness of a digital device providing real-time visualized tooth brushing instructions: A randomized controlled trial
June 25, 2020 Haruka Shida, Masami Yoshioka, Naoko Takase, Masahiro Nishiura, Yui Okazawa, Kosuke Kiyohara, Manako Konda, Norihiro Nishioka, Takashi Kawamura, Taku Iwami, Satoe Okabayashi
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PLOS ONE Gamification as an approach to improve resilience and reduce attrition in mobile mental health interventions: A randomized controlled trial
September 2, 2020 Silja Litvin, Rob Saunders, Markus A. Maier, Stefan Lüttke
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PLOS ONE Keeping the power on to home medical devices
July 9, 2020 Richard Bean, Stephen Snow, Mashhuda Glencross, Stephen Viller, Neil Horrocks
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PLOS ONE A novel scaling methodology to reduce the biases associated with missing data from commercial activity monitors
June 24, 2020 R. O’Driscoll, J. Turicchi, C. Duarte, J. Michalowska, S. C. Larsen, A. L. Palmeira, B. L. Heitmann, G. W. Horgan, R. J. Stubbs
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PLOS ONE Dynamic early identification of hip replacement implants with high revision rates. Study based on the NJR data from UK during 2004-2012
August 4, 2020 Alexander Begun, Alexander J. MacGregor, Dmitri Pchejetski, Elena Kulinskaya
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PLOS ONE Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of accelerometer measured physical activity levels of school-going children in Kampala city, Uganda
July 9, 2020 Bernadette Nakabazzi, Lucy-Joy M. Wachira, Adewale L. Oyeyemi, Ronald Ssenyonga, Vincent O. Onywera
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PLOS ONE Studying health-related internet and mobile device use using web logs and smartphone records
June 12, 2020 Ruben L. Bach, Alexander Wenz
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PLOS ONE Digital technology to address HIV and other sexually transmitted infection disparities: Intentions to disclose online personal health records to sex partners among students at a historically Black college
August 21, 2020 Kevon-Mark P. Jackman, Sarah Murray, Lisa Hightow-Weidman, Maria E. Trent, Andrea L. Wirtz, Stefan D. Baral, Jacky M. Jennings
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Samuele Errico Piccarini

PLOS ONE Health promotion with physiolytics: What is driving people to subscribe in a data-driven health plan
April 15, 2020 Tobias Mettler, Jochen Wulf
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PLOS ONE A qualitative exploration of cardiovascular disease patients’ views and experiences with an eHealth cardiac rehabilitation intervention: The PATHway Project
July 6, 2020 Orlagh O’Shea, Catherine Woods, Lauri McDermott, Roselien Buys, Nils Cornelis, Jomme Claes, Véronique Cornelissen, Anne Gallagher, Helen Newton, Niall Moyna, Noel McCaffrey, Davide Susta, Clare McDermott, Ciara McCormack, Werner Budts, Kieran Moran
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Javier Matheu

PLOS ONE Health providers’ readiness for electronic health records adoption: A cross-sectional study of two hospitals in northern Ghana
June 4, 2020 Abdul-Fatawu Abdulai, Fuseini Adam
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Charles Deluvio

PLOS ONE OtoMatch: Content-based eardrum image retrieval using deep learning
May 15, 2020 Seda Camalan, Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi, Aaron C. Moberly, Theodoros Teknos, Garth Essig, Charles Elmaraghy, Nazhat Taj-Schaal, Metin N. Gurcan
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PLOS ONE Characterization of patients with advanced chronic pancreatitis using natural language processing of radiology reports
August 19, 2020 Fagen Xie, Qiaoling Chen, Yichen Zhou, Wansu Chen, Jemianne Bautista, Emilie T. Nguyen, Rex A. Parker, Bechien U. Wu
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PLOS ONE Pregnancy and health in the age of the Internet: A content analysis of online “birth club” forums
April 14, 2020 Anna Wexler, Anahita Davoudi, Davy Weissenbacher, Rebekah Choi, Karen O’Connor, Holly Cummings, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
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PLOS ONE Machine learning provides evidence that stroke risk is not linear: The non-linear Framingham stroke risk score
May 21, 2020 Agni Orfanoudaki, Emma Chesley, Christian Cadisch, Barry Stein, Amre Nouh, Mark J. Alberts, Dimitris Bertsimas
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PLOS ONE Accelerometer based assessment of daily physical activity and sedentary time in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis
September 2, 2020 Swati Chopra, A. Noelle Larson, Kenton R. Kaufman, Todd A. Milbrandt
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Zera Li

PLOS ONE Weekly, seasonal and holiday body weight fluctuation patterns among individuals engaged in a European multi-centre behavioural weight loss maintenance intervention
April 30, 2020 Jake Turicchi, Ruairi O’Driscoll, Graham Horgan, Cristiana Duarte, Antonio L. Palmeira, Sofus C. Larsen, Berit L. Heitmann, James Stubbs
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Christof Görs

PLOS ONE Computer-aided diagnosis of external and middle ear conditions: A machine learning approach
March 12, 2020 Michelle Viscaino, Juan C. Maass, Paul H. Delano, Mariela Torrente, Carlos Stott, Fernando Auat Cheein
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PLOS ONE A user-centred design framework for mHealth
August 19, 2020 Jaydon Farao, Bessie Malila, Nailah Conrad, Tinashe Mutsvangwa, Molebogeng X. Rangaka, Tania S. Douglas
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PLOS ONE Deep learning-based smart speaker to confirm surgical sites for cataract surgeries: A pilot study
April 9, 2020 Tae Keun Yoo, Ein Oh, Hong Kyu Kim, Ik Hee Ryu, In Sik Lee, Jung Sub Kim, Jin Kuk Kim
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PLOS ONE Electronic Medical Records implementation in hospital: An empirical investigation of individual and organizational determinants
June 4, 2020 Anna De Benedictis, Emanuele Lettieri, Luca Gastaldi, Cristina Masella, Alessia Urgu, Daniela Tartaglini
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Artur Łuczka

PLOS ONE Inter- and intraindividual variability in daily resting heart rate and its associations with age, sex, sleep, BMI, and time of year: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of 92,457 adults
February 5, 2020 Giorgio Quer, Pishoy Gouda, Michael Galarnyk, Eric J. Topol, Steven R. Steinhubl
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PLOS ONE A Quality of Experience assessment of haptic and augmented reality feedback modalities in a gait analysis system
March 23, 2020 Thiago Braga Rodrigues, Ciarán Ó Catháin, Noel E. O’Connor, Niall Murray
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PLOS ONE Physical activity and heart rate monitoring in Fontan patients – Should we recommend activities in higher intensities?
January 30, 2020 Julian Alexander Härtel, Ulrike Herberg, Thomas Jung, Christian Winkler, Johannes Breuer, Nicole Müller
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PLOS ONE Usability and acceptability of a two-way texting intervention for post-operative follow-up for voluntary medical male circumcision in Zimbabwe
June 16, 2020 Caryl Feldacker, Isaac Holeman, Vernon Murenje, Sinokuthemba Xaba, Michael Korir, Bill Wambua, Batsirai Makunike-Chikwinya, Marrianne Holec, Scott Barnhart, Mufuta Tshimanga
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Malte Wingen

PLOS ONE Tinnitus-related distress after multimodal treatment can be characterized using a key subset of baseline variables
January 30, 2020 Uli Niemann, Benjamin Boecking, Petra Brueggemann, Wilhelm Mebus, Birgit Mazurek, Myra Spiliopoulou
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PLOS ONE Development and validation of a robotic multifactorial fall-risk predictive model: A one-year prospective study in community-dwelling older adults
June 25, 2020 Alberto Cella, Alice De Luca, Valentina Squeri, Sara Parodi, Francesco Vallone, Angela Giorgeschi, Barbara Senesi, Ekaterini Zigoura, Katerin Leslie Quispe Guerrero, Giacomo Siri, Lorenzo De Michieli, Jody Saglia, Carlo Sanfilippo, Alberto Pilotto
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PLOS ONE PRIORI-T: A tool for rare disease gene prioritization using MEDLINE
April 21, 2020 Aditya Rao, Thomas Joseph, Vangala G. Saipradeep, Sujatha Kotte, Naveen Sivadasan, Rajgopal Srinivasan
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Matthew Cabret

PLOS ONE On-line anxiety level detection from biosignals: Machine learning based on a randomized controlled trial with spider-fearful individuals
June 23, 2020 Frank R. Ihmig, Antonio Gogeascoechea H., Frank Neurohr-Parakenings, Sarah K. Schäfer, Johanna Lass-Hennemann, Tanja Michael
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PLOS ONE lillies: An R package for the estimation of excess Life Years Lost among patients with a given disease or condition
March 6, 2020 Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Nanna Weye, Thomas M. Laursen, John J. McGrath, Per Kragh Andersen
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PLOS ONE Shining the light on abortion: Drivers of online abortion searches across the United States in 2018
May 21, 2020 Sylvia Guendelman, Elena Yon, Elizabeth Pleasants, Alan Hubbard, Ndola Prata
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Maxwell Ridgeway

PLOS ONE Using consumer-wearable technology for remote assessment of physiological response to stress in the naturalistic environment
March 25, 2020 Serguei V. S. Pakhomov, Paul D. Thuras, Raymond Finzel, Jerika Eppel, Michael Kotlyar
PLOS ONE Harnessing digital health to objectively assess cognitive impairment in people undergoing hemodialysis process: The Impact of cognitive impairment on mobility performance measured by wearables
May 4, 2020 He Zhou, Fadwa Al-Ali, Changhong Wang, Abdullah Hamad, Rania Ibrahim, Talal Talal, Bijan Najafi
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Harlie Raethel

PLOS ONE Machine learning and natural language processing methods to identify ischemic stroke, acuity and location from radiology reports
June 19, 2020 Charlene Jennifer Ong, Agni Orfanoudaki, Rebecca Zhang, Francois Pierre M. Caprasse, Meghan Hutch, Liang Ma, Darian Fard, Oluwafemi Balogun, Matthew I. Miller, Margaret Minnig, Hanife Saglam, Brenton Prescott, David M. Greer, Stelios Smirnakis, Dimitris Bertsimas
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PLOS ONE Prediction of hypertension, hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia from retinal fundus photographs via deep learning: A cross-sectional study of chronic diseases in central China
May 14, 2020 Li Zhang, Mengya Yuan, Zhen An, Xiangmei Zhao, Hui Wu, Haibin Li, Ya Wang, Beibei Sun, Huijun Li, Shibin Ding, Xiang Zeng, Ling Chao, Pan Li, Weidong Wu
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PLOS ONE Advancing clinical cohort selection with genomics analysis on a distributed platform
April 23, 2020 Jaclyn M. Smith, Melvin Lathara, Hollis Wright, Brian Hill, Nalini Ganapati, Ganapati Srinivasa, Christopher T. Denny
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PLOS ONE Outcomes in a digital weight management intervention with one-on-one health coaching
April 30, 2020 Jordan M. Silberman, Manpreet Kaur, Jakob Sletteland, Aarathi Venkatesan
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PLOS ONE Benchmarking machine learning models on multi-centre eICU critical care dataset
July 2, 2020 Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Vevake Balaraman, Venet Osmani
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PLOS ONE Modeling workflows: Identifying the most predictive features in healthcare operational processes
June 11, 2020 Colm Crowley, Steven Guitron, Joseph Son, Oleg S. Pianykh
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PLOS ONE Developing a pain intensity prediction model using facial expression: A feasibility study with electromyography
July 9, 2020 Riitta Mieronkoski, Elise Syrjälä, Mingzhe Jiang, Amir Rahmani, Tapio Pahikkala, Pasi Liljeberg, Sanna Salanterä
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PLOS ONE Teledermatology in Norway using a mobile phone app
April 27, 2020 Syed Mohammad Husain Rizvi, Thomas Schopf, Amandip Sangha, Kim Ulvin, Petter Gjersvik
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PLOS ONE Digital versus analogue record systems for mass casualty incidents at sea—Results from an exploratory study
June 5, 2020 Esther Henning, Mustafa Sinan Bakir, Lyubomir Haralambiev, Simon Kim, Stefan Schulz-Drost, Peter Hinz, Thomas Kohlmann, Axel Ekkernkamp, Denis Gümbel

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