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Understanding the pandemic’s impact on the management of chronic conditions

The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected every part of our society and economy, and is likely to have a long-lasting impact for years to come. We sough to understand how it is affecting one of the most vulnerable segments of the population.

NYC Health and Evidation collaborate with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to launch study on COVID-19’s impact on mental health

Evidation and NYC Health announce a nationwide study that aims to understand the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Continuous digital assessment for weight loss surgery patients

Evidation research reveals that the weeks following weight-loss operations were associated with fewer steps and greater sleep time/efficiency.

Ramirez E, Marinsek N, Bradshaw B, Kanard R, Foschini L

Machine intelligence in healthcare — Perspectives on trustworthiness, explainability, usability, and transparency

Evidation research reveals that machine intelligence approaches have the potential to improve health through the facilitation of more efficient and effective provision of care.

Cutillo CM, Sharma KR, Foschini L, Kundu S, Mackintosh M, Mandl, KD

Deep learning models for electrocardiograms are susceptible to adversarial attack

Evidation researchers develop a method to construct smoothed adversarial examples for ECG tracings that are invisible to human expert evaluation.

Han X, Hu Y, Foschini L, Chinitz L, Jankelson L, Ranganath R

Johnson & Johnson launches Heartline™, the first-of-its-kind, virtual study designed to explore if a new iPhone app and Apple Watch can help reduce the risk of stroke

Evidation collaborates with Johnson & Johnson and Apple to create The Heartline Study, which aims to assess whether digital tools can reduce the likelihood of stroke and improve health outcomes.

Large-scale influenza vaccination promotion on a mobile app platform: A randomized controlled trial

Evidation research reveals that messages regarding influenza vaccinations were most effective the first time around; effectiveness decreased after each successive batch sent.

Lee WN, Stück D, Konti K, Rivers C, Brown CR, Zbikowski SM, Foschini L

Quantifying the impact of influenza among persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A new approach to determine medical and physical activity impact

Evidation research reveals that influenza increases rates of pneumonia, heart disease, and abnormal glucose levels among people with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Samson SI, Konty K, Lee WN, Quisel T, Foschini L, Kerr D, Liska J, Mills H, Hollingsworth R, Greenberg M, Beal AC

African American participants experience greater pain severity and pain interference compared to non­-Hispanic whites in a large scale virtual study on chronic pain

Evidation research findings add to a growing body of evidence that African Americans are disproportionately burdened by chronic pain.

Cerrada C J, Tai C, Kumar S, Scherer K, Eulogio R, Ramirez E, Foschini L, Juusola J

Effect of different financial incentive structures on promoting physical activity among adults

Evidation research reveals that financial incentives for physical activity are most effective when offered at a constant rate.

Bachireddy C, Joung A, John LK, Gino F, Tuckfield B, Foschini L, Milkman KL