A personal health LLM for sleep and fitness coaching: Provides tailored, context aware insights & predictions from #wearables From Google Health in nature nature.com/articles/s4159…

What is "AI Psychosis"? No one really knows, but I spoke with The Takeout w/ Major Garrett about what it may be, what we can do about it, and how the research we are doing at BIDMC is helping us get the answers we all need. cbsnews.com/video/understa…

“Striking change”: Our new study shows IBS prevalence nearly doubled during COVID-19—from 6% to 11%. Stress—biological & psychological—took a real toll on gut health. Another datapoint on the pandemic's impact Full story here from Healio: healio.com/news/gastroent… Neurogastro & Motil

A beautiful summer day in LA today! Pic looking west from my office towards Century City. 🌴 ⛅️

Help us develop better food and drug recall notification systems by telling us about your experiences in a survey: go.tufts.edu/recalls

No! Run!

Sitting too long? 🪑 It’s not just bad for your heart—prolonged sedentary time erodes bone strength. A new review shows even light movement helps fight gravity’s pull and protect against fractures. 🦴 If you can: stand up, stay up, and thrive. More: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

· More than a year after the rollout of 988, only 15% of mental health apps utilize this new national standard for crisis support · A subset of mental health apps, downloaded by 3.5 million people, provided non-functional crisis support contact information psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…

Well, at least the AI chatbots don't encourage teens to use cocaine! In this paper, a psychiatrist presented cases asking chatbots to validate harmful ideas - and sadly, more than one agreed. Free to read in JMIR Mental Health mental.jmir.org/2025/1/e78414

🚨 Big milestone! 🚨 Our team has transcribed all 586 fire claims from Charlestown residents after the Battle of Bunker Hill. Explore the claims and our research here: boston.gov/departments/ar… Huge thanks to our volunteers! 👏

Two new papers (not our team) reporting concerns re a RCT of a chatbot for mental health -"use of a wait-list control" -"lack of independent evaluation" -"misapplication of a measure developed for human therapeutic relationships" -ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… -ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Welcome by Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS to the 25 new students in the Masters of Science in Health Systems (MSHS) Cedars-Sinai.

Welcome to the 25 new students in the Masters of Science in Health Systems (MSHS) at Cedars-Sinai

Amazing group of new Cedars-Sinai grad students! This year we are introducing a concentration in applied AI for health systems. Applications for next year will open later in September.

Hot take: If Taco Bell thinks AI is not yet ready for fast food drive through orders, then it may also not yet be yet ready for therapy!?! bbc.com/news/articles/…

New in Applied Clinical Informatics: our study on Generative AI for ED handoffs: ✅Clinicians rated out HIPAA-compliant GPT-4 summaries 4/5 for accuracy & usefulness ⚠️Rare safety issues came from missing/discrepant EHR data, not AI summarization mistakes (1/2)

Testing various AI around self-harm. When I asked one to write a scene for a book, it refused (good) and instead went deep into writing: "The Cartographer of Goodbyes...A literary novel about love, loss, and the maps we draw to make meaning of an ending."

Drumroll, please… 🥁vMed26 is on it's way, with a fresh new logo and an expanded focus. #vMed26 will explore topics in VR, AI, wearables, and digital health innovation. The future of healthcare is immersive, intelligent, and inclusive! 📍Stay tuned at virtualmedicine.org

📦✨ After years of research, sweat, and countless rewrites… nothing compares to the moment when your book finally lands in your hands. PULL is real! Box o’ books just arrived from St. Martin's Press. Gravity never felt so good. 🌍📖💫 Info: amazon.com/Pull-Gravity-S…

A big welcome to all our new #CedarsSinai grad students! On 9/15 we'll open up applications for next year's class. We now have a concentration in applied AI for health systems within our MS program, more info to follow! More: cedars-sinai.edu/education/grad…