Tech & Health Archive — Page 2 of 20
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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. -
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%. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
November 25, 2025
New NICU program cares for infants with complex lung and airway diseases
Over the past two decades, there has been a steady increase in the number of patients born preterm with severe lung disease requiring highly specialized care. -
November 11, 2025
AI recruited to lower leading cause of preventable hospital deaths
Risk of VTE rises in hospitals due to factors such as patient immobility, effects from major surgery, and use of indwelling medical devices like central lines.