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Recent Findings

Recent Findings
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A self-report measure of digital skills needed to use digital health tools among older adults—the Skills Measurement and Readiness Training for Digital Health (SMART Digital Health) Scale

This study evaluated a brief scale to assess digital skills among adults aged 50 and older across English, Spanish, and Cantonese speakers.

English- and Spanish-Speaking Patient Preferences
English- and Spanish-Speaking Patient Preferences on Home Blood Pressure Monitors in an Urban Safety Net Setting: Qualitative Study

This study explored patient-reported barriers, preferences, and facilitators to self-measured blood pressure monitoring among English- and Spanish-speaking patients with hypertension at an urban safety-net hospital.

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Evaluation of the accuracy and safety of machine translation of patient-specific discharge instructions: a comparative analysis

This study evaluated the accuracy and potential for harm of ChatGPT-4 and Google Translate when translating emergency department discharge instructions from English into Spanish, Chinese, and Russian.

Featured Blog Posts

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September 2025
Holding Pattern

Dear friends,

Goodbye, summer! Usually I am excited for the back-to-school return to routine that fall brings. This year I just feel like I am holding my breath. With all the harm we’ve witnessed and experienced over the last few months, there is dread about what is coming next. I’m still wrestling with the question of how to move our work forward at such a challenging moment.

August 2025
Grit Isn't It

Dear friends,

In San Francisco, it’s officially Fogust, continuing the coldest, wettest, gray-est summer we have had in the more than 20 years I’ve lived here. I’ve looked out my window many times and thought about how the surroundings mirror my mood. This summer it has taken intentional time and effort to seek the sun, literally and figuratively!

Midpoint Slump
Midpoint Slump

Dear friends,

I hope the upcoming 4th of July holiday holds some rest and community for you. We are halfway through 2025 already- can you believe it? To me, it feels a bit de-motivating to be 6 months into the year and still have so much to do to reach my yearly goals. I have heard this  drop in momentum called “the midpoint effect.” For any project, it is quite common to slow down when you’ve exhausted your initial enthusiasm but you still have a long way to go towards completion. I am experiencing this right now at work. I feel like I am going through the motions rather than feeling engaged and inspired. It hasn’t gotten to the point of “quiet quitting,” but I would like to get my spark back.