The Value of Smartwatches in the Health Care Sector for Monitoring, Nudging, and Predicting: Viewpoint on 25 Years of Research.

We propose a categorization of smartwatch use in the health care sector into 3 key functional domains: monitoring, nudging, and predicting. Monitoring involves using smartwatches within medical treatments to track health data, nudging pertains to individual use for health purposes outside a particular medical setting, and predicting involves using aggregated user data to train machine learning algorithms to predict health outcomes. Each domain offers unique contributions to health care, yet there is a lack of nuanced discussion in existing research.

Telemedicine in the age of the pandemics: The prospects of web-based remote patient monitoring systems for orthopaedic ambulatory care management in the developing economies.

Objective: The goal of this research was to demonstrate the efficacy of telemedicine via design, implementation and evaluation of a web-based remote patient monitoring system (WB-RPMS) across the tertiary/university teaching hospitals in a developing country Nigeria, as a tool to continue to expand access to an affordable and resilient tertiary healthcare system through the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic or any future disruptions.

Methods: This research employed an agile and human-centred design thinking philosophy, which saw the researchers iteratively collaborate with clinicians across the system development value chain. It also employed qualitative and quantitative research methods for new system evaluations.

Mindfulness Meditation According to the Satipatthana Sutta: A Single-Case Study With Participants as Collaborators.

Objectives: We explored the effects of a mindfulness program based on the (instead of a contemporary Western program), with participants as collaborators, using a single-case experimental design. The main question was whether such a training has positive effects and, if so, whether and how the effects vary across participants and measures.

Method: Participants chose the design (multiple baseline) and the measures to be repeatedly collected.

Eye tracking for classification of concussion in adults and pediatrics.

Introduction: In order to obtain FDA Marketing Authorization for aid in the diagnosis of concussion, an eye tracking study in an intended use population was conducted.

Methods: Potentially concussed subjects recruited in emergency department and concussion clinic settings prospectively underwent eye tracking and a subset of the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 3 at 6 sites. The results of an eye tracking-based classifier model were then validated against a pre-specified algorithm with a cutoff for concussed vs.

Consequences of inequity in the neurosurgical workforce: Lessons from traumatic brain injury.

Women and minorities leave or fail to advance in the neurosurgical workforce more frequently than white men at all levels from residency to academia. The consequences of this inequity are most profound in fields such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), which lacks objective measures. We evaluated published articles on TBI clinical research and found that TBI primary investigators or corresponding authors were 86·5% White and 59·5% male.