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Grant money available for telehealth innovations
Jun. 23, 2017—“This initiative is about spurring innovation and stimulating projects focused on increasing ambulatory visits conducted via telemedicine to improve patient access to VUMC providers,” said David Charles, M.D., professor and vice chair of Neurology and medical director of Vanderbilt Telehealth. “We want to support efforts to innovate and utilize technology to extend the reach of...
Artificial intelligence can predict which congressional bills will pass
Jun. 22, 2017—Nay started with data on the 103rd Congress (1993–1995) through the 113th Congress (2013–2015), downloaded from a legislation-tracking website call GovTrack. This included the full text of the bills, plus a set of variables, including the number of co-sponsors, the month the bill was introduced, and whether the sponsor was in the majority party of...
Hosting Accelerator
Jun. 21, 2017—Students from the Vanderbilt Accelerator Summer Business Institute have made their home in the Wond’ry for the next two weeks. Accelerator is rigorous four-week consulting program in which students work in teams of 7-8 members to solve real world business problems for four companies in the Nashville area and conduct a financial evaluation of a...
Bringing the autism advantage to the workplace
Jun. 15, 2017—Jennifer and Billy Frist have a 16-year-old son who can easily rattle off the capital cities of countries around the world. Or, he can tell them what day of the week their birthday will fall on years from now.
Pattern Recognition Smartly Pairs Video Art With Music Videos
May. 31, 2017—The exhibit is organized like a Sharks-versus-Jets face-off, with music videos on the left side of the corridor and video art and digital stills on the right. Frist curator Mark Scala has put both teams’ best fighters on the front lines — Music Row-conquering outsider country musician Sturgill Simpson’s “Turtles All the Way Down” video...
Vanderbilt LifeFlight launches app for emergency responders
May. 30, 2017—The app, developed in partnership with LifeFlight’s computer-aided dispatch vendor Flight Vector, has a multitude of features helpful to emergency personnel. Not only can users request a helicopter via the app, they can also receive push notifications from LifeFlight on education and upcoming training events, access to LifeFlight’s training event calendar, a hospital directory and a...
Bunker Labs, the Wond’ry help veterans become entrepreneurs
May. 25, 2017—Neil Whitney enjoyed the ideal physique – one shaped by tough Army drills and long days spent running from crisis to crisis as an intelligence officer – before a debilitating knee injury forced him off his feet and under the knife for eight surgeries. With each weigh-in, the toll on the rest of his body...
We have to create our own unique capital ecosystem’
May. 25, 2017—Three questions with InCrowd Capital’s Phil Shmerling about funding promising ideas
Innovation Boosts Nashville’s Health Care Industry
May. 23, 2017—As home to 18 publicly traded health care companies and more than 400 health-care businesses, Nashville has long felt the impact of the industry on its economy – to the tune of some $40 billion a year – and the industry’s influence has spread far beyond the hospital walls. A 2016 Brookings Institution study found...
International exhibit unites students, faculty and staff in celebrating mapping technology
May. 22, 2017—Vanderbilt’s recent hosting of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition, an international collection celebrating the use of data visualizations to make sense of large data streams in groundbreaking ways, proved to be not only intellectually enriching, but also socially unifying, according to several leaders across campus.