The Wall Street Journal highlighted the PRISMAP app MySurgeryRisk and quoted lab director Azra Bihorac in an article discussing how researchers are using electronic health records and artificial intelligence to improve patient care and avoid medical errors. Laura Lando writes, “The aim [of MySurgeryRisk] is to help surgeons before an operation, to…
National Public Radio’s 1A program interviewed the Precision and Intelligent Systems in Medicine Research Partnership (PRISMAP) lab director Azra Bihorac for a segment called “Where AI Helps and Hurts in Health Care.” As part of the wide-ranging discussion, Dr. Bihorac told host Jenn White about the…
On Saturday, February 4, 2023, PRISMAp director Azra Bihorac appeared on NBC Nightly News in a segment with Dr. John Torres to discuss research into using AI to monitor the status of critically ill patients. “This technology takes a big burden off physicians and nurses,” Bihorac said, “and provides them time to actually…
2022 PRISMAp Highlight In the debut issue of PLOS Digital Health, a team of researchers including PRISMAp faculty partner Tyler Loftus and lab director Azra Bihorac published the article “Ideal algorithms in healthcare: Explainable, dynamic, precise, autonomous, fair, and reproducible.” In the article, the PRISMAp…
The UF Health publication Florida Physician featured the Precision and Intelligent Systems Medicine Research Partnership (PRISMAp) lab director Azra Bihorac and faculty partner Tyler Loftus in their fall issue for the story “Medicine’s new frontier.” Dr. Bihorac and Dr. Loftus both explained recent advances in medical…
Congratulations to Dr. Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti, Dr. Crystal Johnson-Mann, and Dr. Tyler Loftus for their project “OR-DRD-AI2020: The Artificial Intelligence learns optimal treatment strategies for hypotension in surgery” being selected as an awardee from UF Research, Artificial Intelligence Research Catalyst Fund. The Complication: Hypotension In the United States, where the average…
A prospective cohort study by PRISMAp Read the research paper here. Breaking barriers: PRISMAp researchers, in collaboration with several departments at the University of Florida including Biomedical Engineering, Surgery, UFHealth, and i-Heal, have just completed the first ever study that uses urinary cellular gene expression to examine sepsis. Kidneys are Key…
Across the Health Science Center Discover how UF is prioritizing a future in AI The UF Health colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary…
Researchers at the University of Florida have created virtual reality (VR) software to help medical professionals de-stress from the demands of work and the pandemic. The app, called DREAMS (Digital Rehabilitation Environment Augmenting Medical System), monitors brainwave activity and responds to the user with personalized meditation sessions. Watch the…
UF Research has recently awarded a grant to address racial disparities in clinical trials of treatments for some of the nation’s most prevalent chronic diseases, like diabetes, hypertension, stroke, heart and kidney disease. Racial Disparities in Research “The diseases affect more than 50 million Americans,…
