Emoji use is no longer limited to casual texts and social media posts. New research suggests these digital symbols are quietly making their way into electronic health records, sparking debate among ...

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Emoji, that universal lexicon of colorful and clever symbols meant to replace the written and spoken word, could be a valuable tool in the field of medicine, allowing patients to better communicate ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The medical mask emoji has way too much in common with the disappointed face emoji. Photo: Apple/Cult of Mac In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, when wearing a face mask slows the spread of this ...

Digital communication presents generational challenges with emoji meanings varying significantly. Younger colleagues often ...

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 ...