ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2024
Rheumatology in the digital health era: status quo and quo vadis?
Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic Review on Artificial Intelligence in Rheumatology Practice: From Implementation Concerns to Imaging and Clinical Application.International journal of rheumatic diseases · 2026Pooled it
- The Effects of Digital Health Interventions on Motor Symptoms, Nonmotor Symptoms, and Quality of Life in Patients With Parkinson Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Potential of digital applications for self-management and other outcomes in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a systematic literature review.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- OsteoCHAT: real-world patient evaluation and benchmarking of a guideline-grounded osteoporosis chatbot.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026Article
- AI detects signs of inflammatory arthritis in hand images.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2026Article
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- Structured prompting as reusable clinical tools.EULAR rheumatology open · 2026Article
- Perceptions, knowledge and adoption of artificial intelligence in rheumatology: results from a British Society for Rheumatology survey.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Clinical-psychosocial archetypes predict short-term outcomes in inflammatory arthritis: an unsupervised segmentation study.Clinical rheumatology · 2026Observational
- Machine learning improves online self-referral for inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a registry-based validation study.Rheumatology international · 2026Article
- Ambient AI scribes in rheumatology: early real-world clinician and patient experience.EULAR rheumatology open · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence in rheumatology and paediatric rheumatology: insights from an international survey by EMEUNET.EULAR rheumatology open · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence in Rheumatology: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis and Current Scientific Mapping Research.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2026Review
- [Large language models in rheumatology : New ways of knowledge transfer].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2026Review
- Baseline pain, fatigue, and sleep quality predict 12-week pain improvement in inflammatory arthritis: retrospective real-world analysis of a digital health application cohort.Rheumatology international · 2026Article
- Digital interventions for improving quality of life and physical function in adults aged 50 and over living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Exploring digital health technology in rheumatology: a scoping review on benefits, challenges, and future possibilities.EULAR rheumatology open · 2026Review
- Healthcare professionals' perspectives on digital biomarkers for monitoring inflammatory arthritis: insights from a qualitative study rooted in design thinking.EULAR rheumatology open · 2026Article
- Digital interactions with the pharmaceutical industry: a qualitative focus group study on the perspectives of rheumatology care providers in Germany.BMC rheumatology · 2026Article
- Diagnostic performance of Prof. Valmed, ChatGPT-5 Thinking, and OpenEvidence in rheumatology: A comparative evaluation.Rheumatology international · 2026Article
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Abstract
Rheumatology faces a critical shortage of health-care professionals, exacerbated by an ageing patient population and escalating costs, resulting in widening gaps in care. Exponential advances in digital health technologies (DHTs) in the past 5 years offer new opportunities to address these challenges and could contribute to overall improved health care. However, keeping pace with innovations and integrating them into clinical practice can be challenging. This Review explores the transformative potential of DHTs for rheumatology in reshaping the entire patient pathway and redefining the roles of patients and providers, and discusses the potential barriers to DHT integration. Key technologies, such as large language models, clinical decision-support systems, digital therapeutics, electronic patient-reported outcomes, digital biomarkers, robots, self-sampling devices and artificial intelligence-based scribes, can be implemented along the patient pathway. A digital-first hybrid stepped-care patient pathway could combine in-person and remote care, enabling personalized and continuous monitoring through a digital safety net. The potential benefits and risks of transforming the traditional patient-provider relationship into a digital health triad with technology are discussed. Collaborative efforts are needed to navigate the evolving digital health landscape and harness the potential of DHTs to improve rheumatology care.
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