Another milestone breached: a robot ran a half marathon faster than the human winner (50 min vs 57)
Category: Innovation
Epic XGM26 FOMO generator: Danny Lee and Bala Kulandaivel, Johns Hopkins
A pediatric DKA risk score!
Epic XGM26 FOMO generator: Scott Macdonald with Prospective Consent for AI Scribe
Dr. Macdonald meets the challenge of the California need to consent patients prior to using an AI scribe.
Advances in Pharmacogenomics (PGx) — The Next Chapter of Personalized Medicine at UCHealth (guest bloggers Dr. James Martin and Dr. Nicole McDaniel)
Pharmacogenomics continues to accelerate: we are no longer just identifying patients with impactful genetic variants, we are embedding that information directly into care. What started as population screening has evolved into real-time, clinical-first decision support, from completely healthy biobank participants to patients with cancer about to start high-risk chemotherapy.
What if AI helped students learn, not just do (harvard.edu)
This is the beginning of the beginning. Teachers are starting to create generative AI that helps students learn, and NOT do the actual assignment. Imagine a chatbot where a student can ask questions outside of the classroom to understand concepts or ask it to critique initial writing. I like this very much. There is something here for medical residents and medical students, and indeed even practicing physicians. Tweaking the relationship between the AI assistant and the human is our hard work to come.
UCHealth Parkview reduces sepsis deaths (Beckers)
The story continues. Our EHR, partnered with Epic predictive AI model among other predictive tools have reduced sepsis mortality by 1000 fewer deaths per year compared to our baseline, as we find and treat sepsis earlier with reconfigured teamwork in addition to improved detection tools. Another tale of the Psycho-80: 80% of a project's success is about the psycho-socio-political skills of the people and 20% of the success is due to technology. Grateful for smart colleagues and partners. (image, our fearless informatics leaders, analysts and trainers having a well-deserved meal after another EHR implementation day)
Passwords are so last year. Passkeys! (Wired.com)
I have joined the passkey (quiet) revolution. Far superior even to long passwords, and better and faster than 2 factor and multifactor authentication. I'm all for faster and easier security for my accounts.
UCHealth Biobank breaks new ground in personalized genomic medicine (news)
Our smart colleagues at UCHealth Biobank delivered the 1 millionth pharmacogenomic result into our Epic EHR. In separate news, the Biobank also delivered our 1000th pathogenic variant (like BRCA).
UCHealth joins the Epic COSMOS family. Datathon! Ukulele Parody!
This past week, we hosted our Epic Wisconsin colleagues for an immersion trip on Slicer Dicer and COSMOS, as our researchers, data scientists and faculty dove deeply into Slicer Dicer and the finer points of exploring the deidentified Cosmos database of over 300 million patients. We can’t wait to join the growing list of scientists drawing new lessons from a global repository of clinical care experience.
When Fires Rage, Millions Turn to Watch Duty (wired.com). I think it is the next wikipedia-like crowd-sourced success
Crowd-sourcing when those in charge of disasters do not build the infrastructure to inform the public. The creator of Watch Duty describes how he came to build it.