Department of Biomedical Informatics Archive — Page 1 of 26

The Innovation Clinic entrance on the first floor of the Medical Arts Building. (photo by Susan Urmy)
September 10, 2026

Innovation Clinic doubles as a working clinic and a proving ground

“The most innovative thing about this clinic is that it exists in the first place. … Now we have a dedicated pilot site for every new thing we want to test.”

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

Peter Embí named Director of the National Library of Medicine at NIH

Vanderbilt Health informatics leader will head the world’s largest biomedical library and the nation’s leading funder of biomedical informatics and data science research.

August 5, 2026

Team’s AI agent to speed Alzheimer’s treatment

Patients who qualify for new Alzheimer’s disease therapies often wait weeks before receiving a first infusion.

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.

June 30, 2026

Team creates premium fake people to speed HIV research

Due to nations’ conflicting privacy regulations, de-identified clinical data needed for science doesn’t always travel so well internationally. A team turned to AI to generate a better class of fake people living with HIV.