artificial intelligence (AI)

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 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
November 18, 2025

Quantum computing team including Sunho Park wins competitive award

Their work focused on determining tissue and electrophysiological properties of the heart based on existing imaging approaches using quantum computing.

By Tom Wilemon
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.

By Paul Govern
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) resolution of the structure of a respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein (shades of pink) bound to fragments of two antibodies (dark/light and blue/green) designed by the researchers’ protein language model, MAGE.
November 4, 2025

AI can speed antibody design to thwart novel viruses: study

While the study focused on development of antibody therapeutics against existing and emerging viral threats, the implications of the research are much broader.

By Bill Snyder
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November 3, 2025

Artificial HIV patients do their part for science

To speed HIV research, VUMC scientists are drafting droves of people who do not exist to serve as research subjects.

By Paul Govern
October 20, 2025

Collaborative forms to better predict, prevent and treat Type 1 diabetes

The new project will map Type 1 diabetes progression using multimodal artificial intelligence alongside a wide range of health data.
October 14, 2025

VUMC researchers awarded $2 million to expand AI-powered medical record abstraction

The grant extension will expand applications in research, clinical trials, registries and national collaborations.
October 13, 2025

Symposium explores translating AI into practice

Featured guests spoke on AI for improving clinician attention, and increasing AI's reach and impact through scaling.
By Paul Govern
October 2, 2025

Symposium explores AI’s role in health care

Speakers covered topics ranging from safeguarding AI data and the ethics of harmful chatbot responses to entrepreneurial insights from company founders using AI to transform health care.
By Paul Govern
September 18, 2025

Vanderbilt-developed AI platform validated for molecular mapping of tissues

The advancement transforms how scientists and clinicians can visualize and analyze complex tissues on a high-resolution map of cellular landscapes across entire tissue sections.
By Tom Wilemon
September 17, 2025

Vanderbilt team launches AI-powered project to improve obesity care

The study will analyze electronic health records, survey patients and clinicians, and use artificial intelligence to identify why many patients discontinue obesity treatment.
By Paul Govern
September 10, 2025

Death on the web

Cause of death often lies buried amid content on crowdfunding platforms, web-based obituaries and memorial websites. With AI assistance, gathering and combining this mortality data with medical records could help power research and public health.
By Paul Govern