Department of Biomedical Informatics Archive — Page 2 of 25
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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. -
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. -
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. -
September 5, 2025
AI tools could shorten ‘diagnostic odyssey’ for patients with rare diseases
Large language models achieved diagnostic rates of 13.3% and 10.0%, compared to the historical clinical review rate of 5.6%, and they suggested next steps to evaluate the suggested diagnoses. -
August 25, 2025
Clinicians, patients cheer DAX, the AI ‘ear’ in Vanderbilt Health exam rooms
The program, called DAX Copilot, relieves clinicians from having to enter data into the electronic health record during patient visits and enables them to focus more fully on the patient. -
April 29, 2025
Peter Embí, Department of Biomedical Informatics chair, to step down
DBMI is one of the nation’s largest departments of its kind in academic medicine and consists of more than 130 faculty who focus on different aspects of biomedical informatics.