Tech & Health Archive — Page 12 of 21

Silver medical-alert necklace with a tag labeled “PENICILLIN ALLERGY” and “SEE WALLET CARD,” alongside a medical emblem.
September 29, 2022

Penicillin delabeling initiative expanding to more patient care areas

Efforts to correct mistaken or outdated penicillin allergy records are destined to spread to more patient care areas at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Benoit Dawant, PhD, left, Erik Tkaczyk, MD, PhD, and colleagues have developed a new way to measure human monkeypox severity.
September 22, 2022

Vanderbilt study uses AI to speed mpox drug trials

A machine learning algorithm developed by researchers at Vanderbilt performs as well as humans at identifying skin lesions in clinical photographs of people with monkeypox.

Futuristic digital illustration of a human head and shoulders formed from glowing blue and pink pixels, overlaid with a microchip, circuit patterns, binary digits, and waveform graphics.
September 22, 2022

VUMC to lead AI ethics core for NIH project

Vanderbilt researchers will lead and comprise the greater part of an artificial intelligence research ethics core for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program called Bridge to Artificial Intelligence, or Bridge2AI.

Stethoscope resting across a computer keyboard, symbolizing digital healthcare or telemedicine.
September 22, 2022

Policy experts discuss abortion ruling and health data privacy

Vanderbilt policy experts discuss how the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and newly enacted state laws limiting or banning abortion can be expected to bring new scrutiny to the privacy vulnerabilities of electronic health records.

Healthcare professional holding a transparent tablet displaying a chest X-ray and medical data, surrounded by digitally rendered virus particles and interface graphics.
September 8, 2022

PheWAS reveals post-COVID-19 diagnoses

Using a high-throughput informatics technique and electronic health records, Vanderbilt researchers found that COVID-19 survivors had an increased risk for more than 40 new diagnoses.

Portrait of a smiling person with dark hair and a beard wearing a white lab coat, blue shirt, and patterned tie against a gray wood-paneled background. An embroidered pharmacy-related emblem is visible on the coat sleeve.
July 28, 2022

Partnership creates new pharmacy informatics fellowship

Vanderbilt has partnered with a leading provider of medication management solutions and adherence tools for health systems and pharmacies to create a new two-year pharmacy informatics fellowship.