Colin Walsh

Thank you to @MarkKelly_News for the insightful interview on our recent study @VUMChealth. With constant talk around #AI, it’s critical we test tools like these in the real-world and in clinical practice. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Much more to do including testing such systems at larger scale and refining them to prompt actions beyond screening in general. These types of trials are critical to separate the hype around AI from their usefulness in practice! @VUMChealth /end

In clinical practice, there are lots of distractions (pagers, messages, phone calls). So interrupting doctors shouldn’t be done lightly. In areas where interruptions wouldn’t be tolerated, less interruptive versions of tools like these might still make more sense. /t

Developing risk models in healthcare is hard, implementing them effectively is harder! We test two designs of a system prompting doctors to consider screening for suicide prevention driven by an automated model /t @vumcdbmi @VUMChealth @kbjohnsonmd tinyurl.com/3wtfcnf8

Dr Leigh Anne Tang, winner of the 2024 Brighter Ventures Award @VanderbiltU She’s a newly minted PhD and rising star in healthcare and biomedicine If you get a chance to work with her, do it!! @laurentaudoly @vumcdbmi medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-sciences…

@vumcdbmi @AMIAinformatics @Cre_Shannon 🤣 I was pointing out our amazing students from @vumcdbmi in the room!

Join us next week at the NIH Workshop on Ethics and Transparency in #AI for biomedical research. We will be codeveloping best practices for synthetic data, multimodal data, foundation models, and more. Free registration for videocast after the jump! scgcorp.com/ethicalframewo…

Can a novel #DeepLearning algorithm to predict #sepsis in the emergency department improve care? Researchers from @UCSDHealth show proper implementation of the model can save lives of sepsis patients and improve quality metrics. nature.com/articles/s4174…

Read our open access PsycheMERGE study to develop and validate scalable risk models to predict onset of bipolar disorder now out in @Transl_Psych Three sites, three models, one paper! @jorsmo @vumcdbmi @VUMCgenetics @GeisingerHealth tinyurl.com/36nhz76y

Mental Health Informatics Talks at AMIA S31 is still going strong! Come find us in Churchill B1 #amia2023 busy room but we saved you a seat

Find us at #AMIA2023 to find out more!

@KSchaferPhD @vumcdbmi @VUMC_Medicine @VUMCPsych @IMIAtweets We are wildly lucky to have you @VUMCPsych @vumcdbmi and @VUMChealth ! Dr KMS is a rising superstar tackling critically important research questions in suicide prevention, clinical practice, and technology

@vumcdbmi @VUMC_Medicine @VUMCPsych @IMIAtweets Thank you @IMIAtweets for this honor. Informatics is an INTERNATIONAL team sport!

@bradmalin France was lovely

@CWalshMD Have you been taking lessons from Thomas Jefferson?

Ok, I’m back. Did I miss anything?

I’ve given my share of interviews but Bhav, an undergrad, outdid the pros He was thoughtful, had CLEARLY done his homework, & asked the right tough questions This great piece by @BhavJain_, @SimarSBajaj shows it @vumcdbmi @bradmalin @SmithsonianMag smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

New study by @EHaroz and @jhucih in partnership with the White Mountain Apache Tribe Prospective validation of a statistical risk model of suicide-related behavior within an associated care model. A rare prognostic study in a critical domain jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

New study in @JMIR_PH led by Leigh Anne Tang with an incredible team at @TNDeptofHealth Use of NLP to improve recognition of fatal overdose from autopsy reports. Implications for public health and the overdose crisis @vumcdbmi publichealth.jmir.org/2023/1/e45246