Workshop: Advancing Cancer Genomic Medicine in the AI Era #AI #Genomic #Healthcare

A Practical Approach to Hospital Downtime and Data Resiliency | Healthcare IT Today Downtime in healthcare is inevitable. Planned system upgrades, infrastructure failures, and cyber incidents can all disrupt EHR access and put patient care at risk. Historically, many organizations ha...

A Practical Approach to Hospital Downtime and Data Resiliency #EHR #EHRData #Healthcare

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HSCC issues healthcare guide for third-party AI risk - TechInformed The new HSCC guidance ties AI vendor oversight, supply chain transparency and lifecycle controls more closely to healthcare procurement, HIPAA obligations and patient safety

HSCC issues healthcare guide for third-party AI risk
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The study also incorporates a human-centered design process. Dentists, staff, and patients are involved as co-designers to develop practical interventions and decision support tools that can be integrated into routine care. #HumanCenteredDesign #ClinicalDecisionSupport #UTHealth #MSBMI

A mixed-methods approach is used to understand why prescribing patterns vary. Semi-structured interviews, organized using the SEIPS framework, help identify work-system factors that influence decision making. #HumanFactors #HealthcareResearch #UTHealth #MSBMI #Healthcare #Dentistry #Dental

This work uses data from dental electronic health records to measure how closely prescribing practices align with guidelines. The approach combines structured data with natural language processing to capture a more complete picture. #Healthcare #ClinicalInformatics #UTHealth #MSBMI

Barriers to accessing and affording care remain a major issue. The challenge is not clinical expertise, but how the system is structured and delivered. #Healthcare #Dentist #Dentalcare #UTHealth #MSBMI

Compared to other high-income countries, the U.S. stands out for high spending and lower overall performance. Americans have shorter life expectancy and higher rates of avoidable deaths despite higher healthcare spending.
#PublicHealth #Healthcare #UTHealth #MSBMI #HealthOutcomes

The U.S. spends about 17% of its GDP on healthcare, yet outcomes do not match that level of investment. #HealthEconomics #HealthcareSpending #UTHealth #MSBMI

Dentists account for more than 10% of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in the U.S., and much of this prescribing does not align with evidence-based guidelines. This shows a significant quality gap with implications for patient safety and antimicrobial resistance. #PatientSafety #UTHealth #MSBMI

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We’re joined by Muhammad Walji, PhD, MS, who is presenting: "Informatics Approaches to Measure and Reduce Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing by Dentists" #MSBMI #AI #BiomedicalInformatics #Healthcare #UTHealth #TMC #LLM

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Do #AI scribes prevent clinician burnout? Yes, but... #EHR #healthcare

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Prior work in clinical trial matching has included rule-based systems that convert unstructured eligibility criteria into structured formats, as well as models that compare patient records to trial requirements. #MSBMI #UTHealth #TMC #AI #Clinicaltrials

Manual screening for trial eligibility is labor intensive, and eligibility criteria are often written in complex medical language, making it difficult for patients to determine if they qualify. #MSBMI #UTHealth #TMC #AI #Clinicaltrials

Enrollment remains a major challenge. About 90% of U.S. trials do not meet enrollment goals on time, and nearly 1 in 5 are terminated due to insufficient participation. #MSBMI #UTHealth #TMC #AI #Clinicaltrials

Clinical trials can offer access to new treatments, closer monitoring, and reduced cost, but participation remains limited due to structural and accessibility barriers. #MSBMI #UTHealth #TMC #AI #Clinicaltrials

Clinical trials are designed to evaluate how well new medical approaches work in people. They typically progress through phases focused on safety, efficacy, and comparative effectiveness. #UTHealth #AI #TMC #MSBMI #clinicaltrials

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We’re joined by Summer (Yumeng) Yang, MS, PhD Candidate, who is presenting: "A Patient-Centric Chatbot for Improving Clinical Trial Accessibility" #MSBMI #AI #BiomedicalInformatics #Healthcare #UTHealth #TMC #LLM

AI scribes can reduce EHR charting, more so when used frequently Researchers from Mass General Brigham and UCSF found that clinicians who make use of ambient documentation tools for more than half of patient encounters see the most benefits in documentation efficie...

AI scribes can reduce EHR charting, more so when used frequently #EHR #AI #hit #healthcareIT #healthtech #healthcare

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Advancing Cancer Genomic Medicine in the AI Era, UTHealth CPRIT Cancer Genomics Core (CGC), CPRIT Biomedical Informatics, Genomics, and Translational Cancer Research (BIG-TCR) program, and UTHealth Office of Cancer Genomic Medicine (OCGM).

April 23, 2026
12 PM - 5 PM
MSBMI Classrooms
6th floor

#UTHealthHoustonGivingDay is here! The Honor’s HEROES program at @McWilliamsSBMI helps connect overdose survivors to care, treatment, and peer recovery specialists. Join others to strengthen this lifesaving work and help us reach our 600 donor goal by making your gift today at go.uth.edu/GD26MSBMI!

CardamomOT: a mechanistic optimal transport-based framework for gene regulatory network inference, trajectory reconstruction and generative modeling #SingleCell 🧪🧬🖥️
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AI Reshapes Healthcare Workflows But Execution Challenges Remain From administrative automation to predictive scheduling, AI is driving measurable efficiency gains. But integration, workforce adaptation, and trust still pose barriers.

AI Reshapes Healthcare Workflows but Execution Challenges Remain #interoperability #AI #AIHealth #ArtificialIntelligence #EHR #healthcarenotwarfare

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Something powerful happens when global health leaders gather. HIMSS26 Europe, 120+ speakers will take the stage to share how they are advancing digital health across systems, tech, and communities. bit.ly/4v5fFAK

McWilliams SBMI invites you to join us and discover the incredible opportunities to learn about the fascinating world of biomedical informatics

Upcoming Prospective Student Webinars
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Something powerful happens when we come together. Join @McWilliamsSBMI on April 7 for #UTHealthHoustonGivingDay — 24 hours to support informatics students and data-driven innovation. Our goal: 600 donors. Will you be one of them? Explore opportunities to make an early impact at go.uth.edu/GD26MSBMI!

Healthcare Staff can Maximize the Value of AI with High Performing Endpoints - MedCity News Whether AI-driven or legacy applications, the endpoint is the decisive moment. As AI increases in use, having hardware and software that supports a high-performance experience for all staff will impro...

Healthcare Staff Can Maximize the Value of AI with High-Performing Endpoints

#AIdata #BigData #HIT #HealthIT #Interoperability #AI #Healthcare

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OpenEvidence rolls out AI medical coding feature OpenEvidence released an artificial intelligence-powered medical coding feature embedded in its clinical AI assistant. | OpenEvidence released an artificial intelligence-powered medical coding feature...

OpenEvidence rolls out AI medical coding feature #AI #AIMedical #ML #HIT #healthTech #healthcare

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Just released in JAMIA Open! Privacy-preserving verification of preprocessing in federated learning for genomic data ow.ly/tuCe106wnnQ #JAMIAOpen