Paul Govern

VUMC emergency departments offer patient self-registration

Three emergency departments on Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s main campus launched patient self-registration via mobile device and the VUMC electronic patient portal, My Health at Vanderbilt

Novel treatments for fake patients

A customizable framework uses simulated patients to distinguish effects of a new treatment from “learning effects” for clinicians; it should help identify training opportunities and hasten treatment improvements.

Nashville Sounds ticket proceeds from July 22 game to benefit local patient and family support group for people with Tourette syndrome 

VUMC patient portal welcomes millionth user

Embí to help steer national AI code of conduct initiative

Vanderbilt’s Peter Embí, MD, MS, has been named to a National Academy of Medicine committee working to produce a code of conduct for the development and use of artificial intelligence in health, medical care and health research.

Teams reminded to register patient assistance programs

Clinical programs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center routinely provide various forms of patient assistance must comply with one or more exceptions to federal laws that prohibit providers who serve federal health care programs from inducing patients, especially Medicare and Medicaid patients, to seek care with a specific hospital, health system or provider.