Tech & Health

March 27, 2026

2026 REDCap Fest recordings available online

Videos and slides from REDCap Fest 2026, held online March 4-6, are available for viewing by members of the Vanderbilt and Meharry Medical College community.

By Paul Govern
March 25, 2026

Brock Innovator of the Year lecture: Daniel Fabbri wants to speed research and patient care  

The Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation sponsors campus lectures to celebrate award winners.

March 24, 2026

New support for the Department of Biostatistics

The Berry Family Foundation has pledged $1.5 million to the Department of Biostatistics to support improvements to REDCap, a web-based software platform for managing surveys and databases.

March 20, 2026

Study shows AI-assisted risk model for lung nodules is cost-effective

Risk prediction software using artificial intelligence can help determine whether pulmonary nodules detected during lung cancer screening need to be biopsied.

By Tom Wilemon
March 18, 2026

Vanderbilt Health uses novel robotic device to place central lines in FDA trial  

A Chattanooga patient says she’s feeling great after becoming the first to receive the robotic‑assisted central line in Nashville.

By Matt Batcheldor
March 10, 2026

Loneliness is a critical step on the road to suicide: Study

Mental health treatment is often out of reach. A person-centered approach to reducing loneliness that helps people engage with others might be more feasible.

By Bill Snyder
March 3, 2026

Vanderbilt Health and Bertis establish collaboration for cancer drug discovery

The collaboration will integrate Vanderbilt Health’s Molecular AI Initiative capabilities with Bertis’ deep proteomics and AI-enabled technologies to identify novel therapeutic targets and predictive biomarkers.
February 24, 2026

Study identifies medical conditions that could predict future Alzheimer’s disease

The findings could suggest ways to intervene before clinical symptoms of memory and cognitive impairment become apparent.
By Leigh MacMillan
February 20, 2026

Adam Wright invited to National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leaders Forum 

Attendees will explore some of the most pressing challenges in health and medicine, with the aim of considering and stimulating collaborative interdisciplinary solutions.
By Paul Govern
February 9, 2026

AI finds patient-level statin barriers in clinical notes

A novel AI framework found documented intolerance to statins in 6.4% of all adult patients, contraindications in 0.7%, and statin deferral in 2.9%.
By Paul Govern
January 27, 2026

Josh Peterson named chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics

Peterson, who joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2002, is an internationally recognized researcher and educator in the field of biomedical informatics and maintains an internal medicine practice with Vanderbilt Health.
By John Howser
January 20, 2026

Master of Science in Applied Clinical Informatics program accepting applications

This completely virtual program provides a 36-credit-hour curriculum over 21 months, with a coursework-intensive first year followed by a practicum and a mentored capstone project.
By Paul Govern
January 5, 2026

AI gets risk wrong in the clinic

Large language models have become far better than you at solving math problems but may still be bad at employing probabilistic terms in medical contexts.
By Paul Govern