Last September, Dr. Shuhan He, a faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Computer Science Lab, contributed an article to the Journal of the American Medical Association drawing attention to ...

Emoji use is no longer limited to casual texts and social media posts. New research suggests these digital symbols are ...

Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...

Emoji usage rates in electronic health record (EHR) notes at Michigan Medicine were largely stable at 1.4 notes per 100,000 from 2020 to 2024, but increased to 10.7 notes per 100,000 by the third ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a recent editorial, researchers encouraged the normalization of medical emoji across the health care ...

Thinking about its mission to make healthcare workers’ jobs easier during the pandemic, PerfectServe, a healthcare communications services company, was brainstorming ways to leverage its ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

Most of us now use emoji to convey feelings or thoughts, a practice that has become ubiquitous along with the use of smartphones. Could such emoji have use in medical communication? Yes, according to ...

Apple released 117 new emojis on July 17’s World Emoji Day. Among the new offerings are a green bell pepper (the worst kind), a smiling face with a tear (apt for the current moment), a roller skate ...

The medical world needs more emoji, according to Shuhan He, an emergency medicine physician who helped propose the anatomical heart and lungs emoji. Now, He and others have laid out the case for an ...