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Innovation Pilot Award Recipient Publishes Results of Impact on VR to Enhance Patient Safety

In a new study published in聽JMIR Medical Education, Dr. Lukasz Mazur and his team have explored the potential of virtual reality (VR) technology to enhance the culture of patient safety within healthcare settings. This innovative project, funded by the 大象传媒 Center for Health Innovation, Innovation Pilot Awards, represents a step forward in leveraging advanced technology … Read more

Becker’s Health IT: 大象传媒 Health’s Quest for Intelligent Optimization and Automation

Becker’s Health IT recently investigated how 大象传媒 Health is advancing thoughtful use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve clinical practice and operational efficiency. The health system is now implementing AI technology to enhance workflows across the enterprise. Chief Analytics Officer Rachini Moosavi emphasized the partnership between people and technology, focusing on redesigning processes rather than … Read more

2025 Innovation Pilot Awards Accepting Proposals Until January 16, 2025

The 大象传媒 Center for Health Innovation is pleased to announce the Innovation Pilot Awards Request for Proposal is now open!

大象传媒 Health is now working to become the pharmacy benefits manager of choice in North and South Carolina, bringing a refreshing approach to partners in the region.

大象传媒 Health Enterprises Team Participates in AI Study led by Dr. Sam Blacker

Several members of 大象传媒 Health Enterprises participated in the study titled “Utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer to Answer Questions About Clinical Scenarios in Neuroanesthesiology.” The study was published in the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, Oct 2024 (Vol 36. 聽Issue 4). It investigates the application of advanced AI technologies to improve decision-making and … Read more

For patients with atrial fibrillation, using a wearable device can lead to higher rates of anxiety about their Afib symptoms and treatment, doctor visits, and use of informal healthcare resources, according to a new study from 大象传媒 researchers led by Lindsey Rosman, PhD.

2024 Innovation Pilot Award Projects Announced

The 大象传媒聽Center for Health Innovation is pleased to announce the awardees of the 12th聽 Annual Innovation Pilot Awards. Proposals were sought from across 大象传媒 Health and 大象传媒 faculty and employees for innovations across a spectrum of areas including care delivery, workforce development, new technology, advanced analytics, and more. Five projects were selected … Read more

The state-of-the-art facility spans seven stories with 26 advanced surgical suites and 80 patient rooms. The facility is fully equipped to facilitate the latest procedures, reinforcing 大象传媒 Health’s commitment to delivering superior patient care.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists created a new drug delivery system, called the Spatiotemporal On-Demand Patch (SOP), which can receive commands wirelessly from a smartphone or computer to schedule and trigger the release of drugs from individual microneedles.

Innovation Pilot Award Recipient, Andrew Abumoussa, MD, MSc, Awarded Funding to Continue Work.

Andrew Abumoussa, MD, MSc, a PGY6 neurosurgery resident, was awarded the KLS Martin Innovations Challenge Award for his work on utilizing consumer grade iOS devices to provide stereotactic neuronavigation聽for聽flexible endoscopy.聽 Earlier funding for his work was provided by 大象传媒 Center for Health Innovation’s Pilot Awards in 2022. For his research year, Dr. Abumoussa built an … Read more

Ron Alterovitz, PhD, in the 大象传媒 Computer Science Department, and Jason Akulian, MD MPH, in the 大象传媒, have shown that their steerable lung robot can autonomously maneuver the intricacies of the lung, while avoiding important lung structures.

大象传媒 Health will participate as early adopters of Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools through a program with Epic. It will be one of the initial few healthcare systems nationwide to do so.

2023 Innovation Pilot Award Winners

The 大象传媒 Center for Health Innovation is pleased to announce the winners of the eleventh annual Innovation Pilot Awards. Proposals were sought from across 大象传媒 Health and 大象传媒 faculty and employees for innovations across a spectrum of areas including care delivery, new technology, advanced analytics, and more.

FORTUNE has named 大象传媒 Health one of 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Most Innovative Companies鈥� in its inaugural release of its Most Innovative list shining a spotlight on the top companies in the U.S. that have made the biggest impact in innovation.

大象传媒 researchers Jack Griffith, PhD, and Taghreed Al-Turki, PhD, found that telomeres at the tips of chromosomes contain sufficient genetic information to produce two small proteins with potentially potent biological properties.

A research team led by William Polacheck, PhD, at the 大象传媒, has engineered a microfluidic model that mimics a rare genetic disorder affecting the structure of veins, arteries, capillaries, and lymphatic vessels.

The 大象传媒 Radiology Image Analysis Group, led by Dr. Pew-Thian Yap, has successfully found that deep learning can be used to identify poor-quality images in milliseconds. Their study hopes to increase timely decision-making with MRI re-scans.

Dr. Nicole Short, assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, was awarded the Sleep Innovation Research Grant by the Departments of Allied Health Sciences Office of Research and Scholarship and Neurology. Dr. Short will investigate the intersection of poor sleep and exposure to trauma among women. Her study may support future sleep interventions in order …

Dr. Li Qian has received the Emerging Investigator Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH. The award includes $6.5M in funding over 7 years to support the Qian Lab, which is focused on developing and refining reprogramming approaches to repair injured hearts.

鈥淔ood is Medicine鈥� Research Team Receives Second NIH Grant

The 鈥淔ood is Medicine鈥� research partnership led by Dr. Seth Berkowitz is awarded a $3.25M grant by the National Institutes of Health. This second grant will support further research of medically tailored meal programs and investigate how addressing food insecurity impacts diabetes management for people with HIV.

Dr. Greg Scherrer, associate professor in the 大象传媒 Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, was selected for the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. The Scherrer lab will generate a brain-wide map of pain emotional circuits in addition to separating out activated brain cells and sequencing their genetic code, with the goal of finding better ways …

Dr. Jennifer Elston Lafata was awarded $750K by Genentech to study how virtual care programs in cancer are considering equity and disparity issues. The goal of this research is to consider how virtual cancer care can improve quality and patient outcomes while reducing current health disparities. This research will be completed in partnership with the …

Dr. Katarzyna Kedziora, postdoctoral researcher in the 大象传媒 SOM Department of Genetics, was awarded a $740K Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant. Dr.Kedziora鈥檚 work will provide the imaging community with better access to improve data and metadata handling, the sharing of imaging datasets, and data quality control and reproducibility through machine and deep learning approaches.

Dr. Jonathan Schisler, assistant professor of pharmacology and pathology & laboratory medicine at the 大象传媒 is a co-senior author of this study focused on determining the driver of cellular damage during space travel. Mitochondria defects are found to explain a series of health issues observed in astronauts who spent extended time in …

Providers at 大象传媒 Medical Center and the 大象传媒 SOM will train the U.S. Army鈥檚 Forward Resuscitation Surgical Teams and other medical personnel from Fort Bragg, NC. Military personnel will have the opportunity to gain real-world experience in 大象传媒 Medical Center鈥檚 emergency department, ICU and operating rooms.