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McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
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Educating leaders in health informatics since 1997.
Located in the Texas Medical Center at Houston, TX.
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Cloud fax, AI, and the end of interface dependency in healthcare #FHIR #HL7 #AI #EMR #Healthcare

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Cloud fax, AI, and the end of interface dependency in healthcare
How AI-powered cloud fax reduces HL7/FHIR interface dependency by interpreting documents and routing them into EMR workflows.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Barriers to NLP Adoption in Healthcare Organizations #NLP #HIT #EHR #Healthcare

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Barriers to NLP Adoption in Healthcare Organizations
Why healthcare organizations struggle to scale NLP from pilot projects to production systems
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January 21, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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MEDvidi Launches AI-Powered Healthcare Solutions to Transform Telemedicine #telehealth #telemedicine #AI #AIHealth #healthcare

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MEDvidi Launches AI-Powered Healthcare Solutions to Transform Telemedicine
MEDvidi, a platform for delivering remote, personalized mental health treatment, is launching AI-powered healthcare solutions for telemedicine platforms. The new artificial intelligence tools from MED...
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January 20, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we honor a legacy rooted in service and compassion. At UTHealth Houston, we use our time creatively—through care, research, and education—to build healthier, stronger communities.

#MLKDay #UTHealthHouston
January 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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OpenAI acquires healthcare startup Torch to build out ChatGPT Health #AITech #HIT #healthtech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #healthcare #AIML #ML #machinelearning

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OpenAI acquires healthcare startup Torch to build out ChatGPT Health
OpenAI acquired Torch, a healthcare startup that unifies lab results, medications and recordings from doctor visits, as the foundation artificial intelligence model company builds out ChatGPT Healt | ...
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January 16, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Improving Regulatory Oversight of Medical AI
#medicalAI #AI #BioTech #HealthcareAI #healthcare #clinicians #AITech

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Improving Regulatory Oversight of Medical AI | The Regulatory Review
Scholar urges policymakers to reduce the role of clinicians in overseeing AI use in health care.
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January 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Building on that point, Dr. Roberts discussed an alternative approach: using the same large language model multiple times and in different ways. This enables researchers to more effectively surface and work with the information already embedded in the model. #LLMK #MSBMI #AI #NLP #UTHealth #TMC
January 14, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Dr. Roberts shares concerns about how large language models are typically evaluated. He explained that standard prediction methods often fail to fully use the information encoded in these models, and that evaluation results may reflect only a lower bound of their true potential. #NLP #LLM #AI#MSBMI
January 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Since the early days of NLP, both linguistics and labeled data have been crucial. In the 1980s, LLMs were first developed to reduce reliance on linguists. Today, while labeled data remains important, the growth of LLMs has led to immense uncertainty about the future of linguistics in this field.
January 14, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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LLMs can make everyone an NLP expert- or can it?
Dr. Roberts believes accessibility is NOT the same as expertise. While people can do something, does that mean they really know how to do it correctly? #NLP #LLM #AI #BiomedicalInformatics #Informatics #UTHealth #MSBMI #TMC #Largelanguagemodel
January 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Reporting from the MSBMI research seminar!

We’re joined by Kirk Roberts, PhD, MS, who is presenting: "The Rise of LLMs from an NLP Methodologist’s Perspective" #MSBMI #AI #BiomedicalInformatics #Healthcare #UTHealth #TMC
January 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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This AI Can Spot Dangerous Blood Cells That Doctors Often Miss

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#AI #Healthcare #MachineLearning #MedicalAI #CytoDiffusion #BloodCells #Leukemia #UniversityOfCambridge #GenerativeAI
This AI Can Spot Dangerous Blood Cells That Doctors Often Miss
A groundbreaking generative AI system called CytoDiffusion is outperforming human experts at detecting abnormal blood cells, potentially transforming how diseases like leukemia are diagnosed
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January 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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While precision medicine promises customization, a global understanding of inflammation remains elusive. This atlas of 6.5 million cells across 19 diseases establishes circulating cells as living biomarkers for future diagnostics.
#MedSky 🧬💻
Interpretable inflammation landscape of circulating immune cells - Nature Medicine
Including data from 1,047 patients across 19 inflammatory diseases, a new atlas presents a comprehensive model of inflammation in circulating immune cells.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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JPM26: Elation Health embeds Anthropic's Claude into EHR to power chart summaries #genAI #generativeAI #AI #EHR #ML #MachineLearning #HIT #HealthTech #Healthcare

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JPM26: Elation Health embeds Anthropic's Claude into EHR to power chart summaries
SAN FRANCISCO—Health tech company Elation Health has embedded Anthropic's Claude into its electronic health record to power its artificial-intelligence-driven chart summaries. | SAN FRANCISCO—Health t...
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January 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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HIMSS 2026 will convene executive, clinical, and technology leaders for focused discussion on AI strategy, governance, vendor decisions, and real-world implementation. The program includes an AI Leadership Strategy Summit, limited to 65 executive-level provider leaders in Boston. bit.ly/3Naw0CX
Save the Date - HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum Boston 2026
Join healthcare leaders in Boston June 23-25, 2026 for the AI in Healthcare Forum. Explore cutting-edge AI innovations transforming healthcare delivery.
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January 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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2026 Healthcare Predictions on AI, Blockchain, and the Rise of Decentralized Innovation #blockchain #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #healthtech #healthcare

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2026 Healthcare Predictions on AI, Blockchain, and the Rise of Decentralized Innovation
As healthcare enters 2026, emerging technologies and decentralized architectures have moved decisively into core healthcare systems—reshaping how care is delivered, how research is funded, and how tru...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Is 2026 the year healthcare will open the digital front door? #datascience #healthcare

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Is 2026 the year healthcare will open the digital front door? | TechTarget
Healthcare organizations need to assess patient needs and refocus resources onto the digital front door.
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January 8, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Mitigating memorization threats in clinical AI
#clinicalAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #HitSecurity #healthcaresecurity #healthcare

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Mitigating memorization threats in clinical AI
New research explores how artificial intelligence foundation models trained on electronic health record data can be tested to prevent threats to patient privacy and protect against re-identification o...
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January 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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🎀 ✨ 🎁 We are "wrapping" up 2025. But before we put a "bow" on it, the faculty and staff from McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics want to wish you Happy Holidays!! 🎀 ✨ 🎁
December 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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6 Things Healthcare Leaders Need to Know About HHS’s New AI RFI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #interoperability #healthcare

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6 Things Healthcare Leaders Need to Know About HHS’s New AI RFI
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just issued a major Request for Information (RFI) on artificial intelligence in clinical care. Comments are due February 21, 2026. It is led by the As...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Holiday hours coming at you all festive and stuff...
December 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Large quantitative models: How AI is accelerating drug discovery #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM
#LLMs #HealthcareInnovation #healthcareAI #healthcare

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Using large quantitative models and AI in drug discovery
Large quantitative models are revolutionizing drug discovery by cutting years off R&D while unlocking therapies for diseases once deemed untreatable.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Are we in a new era for EHRs?
#EHR #AI #AIHealth #HIT #healthtech #healthcareIT #healthcare

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Are we in a new era for EHRs?
The healthcare industry is experiencing a fundamental shift in digital health infrastructure, one that prioritizes interoperability, clinician efficiency and patient-centered care – and where AI and a...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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AI-powered clinical assistant, bed-flow management tool are features of VA’s new electronic health records system #EHR #healthcare #AIHealth

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AI-powered clinical assistant, bed-flow management tool are features of VA’s new electronic health records system
The VA is accelerating a systemwide rollout of its new electronic health records platform, with full deployment at all medical sites by 2031.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Survey: A third of U.S. hospitals are early adopters of #genAI #healthcare #EHR

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Survey: A third of U.S. hospitals are early adopters of genAI | TechTarget
GenAI adoption varies across U.S. hospitals, with factors such as predictive AI use, EHR vendor and type of hospital impacting adoption rates, per a new survey.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM