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September 7, 2026

REDCap adds generative AI tools, with human oversight built in

Institutions were advised to connect REDCap to their own institutionally managed, secure generative AI service.

September 2, 2026

‘Balancing act’ helps keep colorectal cancer in check

Vanderbilt Health study offers potentially new avenues to explore in the treatment of colorectal cancer.

August 14, 2026

EHR-embedded tool extracts liver stiffness values to prevent gaps in care

Vanderbilt Health researchers developed a natural language processing tool that can efficiently identify patients with liver disease and streamline assessment for treatments.

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August 12, 2026

Study points to new therapeutic target for chronic kidney disease

Researchers showed that blocking the protein cadherin-11 improved survival and kidney function in three kidney injury models.

August 3, 2026

Study explores diagnostic utility of ocular ultrasound in the emergency department

The study found that point-of-care ultrasound had a high sensitivity for detecting vitreoretinal pathology, but had only moderate accuracy and a low sensitivity for detecting other ocular pathologies that may require prompt intervention.

July 2, 2026

Team’s prediction task compares GPT-4o with classic machine learning

Large language models have been functionally opaque. Seeking some transparency, a team undertook a comparison with traditional machine learning for predicting which patients would discontinue their home cancer medications.