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Remembering Atul Butte, Inaugural Director of Bakar Institute at UCSF

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UCSF BCHSI

June 17, 2025

In Loving Memory of Atul Butte, 1969-2025

UCSF Bioinformatics Pioneer Atul Butte Dies at 55

Source: UCSF

June 30, 2025

A transformational figure, he bridged the worlds of science and technology, helping to usher in the era of precision medicine.

Researchers consider innovative, inclusive ways to develop and scale computational health

Source: UC Berkeley CDSS

May 6, 2025

The Frontiers of Computational Health conference gathered more than 150 academic and industry researchers, staff and students from disciplines across varied health specialties, computer science,…

Physician and Large Language Model–Generated Hospital Discharge Summaries

Source: JAMA Internal Medicine

May 5, 2025

Chris Williams, Ben Rosner, et al publish in JAMA Internal Medicine - the study evaluated the quality and safety of discharge summary narratives generated by a large language model (GPT-4…

4 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Poised to Transform Medicine

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UCSF

February 7, 2025

Work featuring BCHSI affiliated faculty Reza Abbasi-Asl and Geoff Tison.

Not All Clinical AI Monitoring Systems Are Created Equal: Review and Recommendations

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NEJM AI

January 23, 2025

Jean Feng, Romain Pirracchio, et al publication.

Assessing Large Language Models for Oncology Data Inference From Radiology Reports

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JCO Clinical Informatics

January 14, 2025

Julian Hong, Travis Zack, Atul Butte et al publish on the effectiveness of proprietary and open large language models (LLMs) in detecting disease presence, location, and treatment response in pancr

CZI Grant Award for Improving Rare Disease Research

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BCHSI

January 10, 2025

Congratulations to Atul Butte and Madhumita Sushil on their recent grant award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (Science in Society initiative).

UCSF BCHSI Harvard Traumatic Brain Injury Comorbidity Project Published in JAMA

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JAMA Network

December 17, 2024

Habibeh Ashouri Choshali, Gundolf Schenk, Sharat Israni collaborated with Harvard investigators on this longitudinal study.

Podcast: Could AI Identify Alzheimer’s Risk Factors from Electronic Health Records?

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Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

December 11, 2024

Marina Sirota and Alice Tang join the podcast to share their research on how AI could be used to predict one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease based on their electronic health records.

Chancellor Celebrates UCSF’s ‘Momentum’ in 2024 State of the University Address

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UCSF

November 22, 2024

The past decade at UCSF has been propelled by innovation and technology, Hawgood said, highlighting the work being done by BCHSI steered by Atul Butte.

Native American Heritage Month and Transgender Day of Remembrance

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BCHSI

November 20, 2024

Electronic Health Record Documentation Burden Crowds Out Health Information Exchange Use By Primary Care Physicians

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Health Affairs

November 7, 2024

A. Jay Holmgren, Julia Adler-Milstein, et al - Documentation burden crowds out other high-value EHR tasks, in this case viewing outside records via health information exchange

Method of moments framework for differential expression analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data

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Cell

October 25, 2024

BCHSI affiliated faculty Jimmie Ye re-introduces Memento, a scalable method for differential analysis of scRNA-seq data - "first-in-class performance in statistical power and calibration for c