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Source: Magnific; Copyright: gpointstudio; License: Licensed by JMIR A new educational framework called AWARE offers mental health professionals a structured guide to understand, assess, and navigate how patients interact with conversational AI chatbots in their everyday lives. (Toronto, October 1, 2026) As AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude become everyday tools, more people are turning to them not just for work or education, but for companionship, emotional support, and mental health advice. To help doctors navigate this rapidly changing landscape, researchers have introduced a practical guide called the AWARE framework, published by JMIR Publications in the journal JMIR Medical Education. The new paper, titledRead More →

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Source: Magnific; Copyright: tonodiaz; License: Licensed by JMIR A 6-month, peer-reviewed study of 5132 MyNetDiary users published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research finds that every additional day of weekly food tracking is associated with better outcomes. (Boca Raton, FL, August 25, 2026) The people who log their meals most days of the week lose the most weight. This is the central finding of a peer-reviewed study of 5132 MyNetDiary users, published on August 13, 2026, in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Over 6 months, users who tracked food 6-7 days per week lost 11.33% of their body weight on average, about two-thirdsRead More →

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Source: Created with DALL-E, an AI system by OpenAI; Copyright: N/A (AI-generated image); License: Public Domain (CC0) A comprehensive review finds AI-powered nursing tools improve prediction of health risks and reduce unnecessary hospital use, while more research is needed on patients’ emotional well-being. (Toronto, July 16, 2026) Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping nurses better predict health problems before they become emergencies, according to a new review of existing research published in JMIR Nursing. The study found that AI-based nursing interventions can improve the care of people living with chronic illnesses by identifying patients at greater risk of complications, reducing unplanned hospital visits, and potentially loweringRead More →

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Research finds digital resilience training associated with reduced stress among health care workers Source: Debora Goetz GoldbergCopyright: The AuthorsURL: https://mhealth.jmir.org/2026/1/e85388License: Licensed by the authors SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – July 13, 2026 – StressPal, a provider of evidence-based digital resilience interventions for health care professionals, announced today the publication of a study evaluating its StressPal Frontline: Essential Resilience Self-Care and Burnout Prevention program in JMIR Formative Research, an open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on emerging digital health innovations. The study, “Resilience and Stress Among Health Care Workers Participating in the StressPal Frontline Program: Quasi-Experimental Pretest-Posttest Study,” examined the impact of the digital resilience intervention on healthRead More →

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New study from Voy shows that patients taking a GLP-1 drug who engaged with coaching sessions and app-based support over the course of 12 months achieved a 30% higher relative body weight loss compared to those using medication alone. (London, January 15, 2026) Voy, the digital health provider, has announced the publication of a new study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research analyzing the efficacy of a GLP-1 drug for achieving weight loss results in patients who engage regularly with a supporting coaching program compared to patients who rely on the medication alone. The large-scale study examined the progress of over 126,000 UK-based Voy patientsRead More →

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(Toronto, November 18, 2025) A new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research reveals how “super users”—clinicians who lead the charge in adopting virtual health care tools—are transforming the way care is delivered. The findings identify best practices that make virtual care more efficient, coordinated, and patient-centered. Led by Jolie N Haun, PhD, and a multidisciplinary team at James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital, the study describes how these “super users” successfully integrate multiple virtual systems to enhance workflows, improve communication, and ensure timely care for patients. The research captures insights from experts across different specialties, including cardiology and rehabilitation. “Super users innovate inRead More →

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Source: freepik.com; Copyright: Freepik; License: Licensed by JMIR New study introduces a comprehensive framework to guide digital health training across Canada (Toronto, September 12, 2025) As Canada’s health care system rapidly adopts digital technologies, a group of Canadian researchers is calling for a major overhaul of health professional education to ensure consistent, outcomes-based training in digital health and informatics competencies. A new article published in JMIR Medical Education by researchers at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and University of Calgary proposes using the Quintuple Aim as a national guiding framework to prioritize the digital health skills health care workers need now and in the future.Read More →

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JMIR Publications recently published “Partisan Differences in Legislators’ Discussion of Vaccination on Twitter During the COVID-19 Era: Natural Language Processing Analysis” in JMIR Infodemiology.  The aims of this study were: To evaluate vaccine-related tweets posted by state and federal legislators during the COVID-19 era and to describe the content of these tweets; To examine the differences in vaccine-related tweet content between Democrats and Republicans; and To quantify partisan differences in vaccine-related communication. These authors abstracted all vaccine-related tweets produced by state and federal legislators between February 1, 2020, and December 11, 2020. They used latent Dirichlet allocation to define the tweet topics and used descriptiveRead More →

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JMIR Publications published “A Revised Hippocratic Oath for the Era of Digital Health” in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, which argues that the Hippocratic Oath, which contains a set of ethical rules designed to guide physicians through their profession, should be updated to reflect the new realities of digital health and articulate updated principles that govern the practice of modern medicine. The original Hippocratic Oath still embodies ideals that are timely and relevant even in the 21st century: To treat patients to the best of one’s ability To preserve a patient’s privacy To faithfully teach the art of medicine to the next generation DespiteRead More →

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JMIR Publications published “Daily Level Association of Physical Activity and Performance on Ecological Momentary Cognitive Tests in Free-living Environments: A Mobile Health Observational Study” in JMIR mHealth and uHealth, which reported that research is needed to determine whether the benefits of physical activity (PA) on cognitive function extend from the laboratory to real-world contexts. This observational study aims to examine the association between daily fluctuations in PA and cognitive performance using mobile health technologies in free-living environments. A total of 90 adults with various comorbidities and different levels of baseline cognition completed ecological momentary cognitive tests (EMCTs) on a smartphone twice daily while wearing anRead More →