Welcome

Welcome to the ADVANCE Center, housed in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at VUMC. 

ADVANCE: Empowering interdisciplinary collaboration between healthcare professionals, researchers, data scientists, and industry leaders to address complex challenges and drive transformative innovations. 

Through data analytics, machine learning, predictive modeling, and generative AI, ADVANCE can help you make informed decisions, enhance patient outcomes through operational support, clinical integration, research, and education: 

  • Innovation: Developing novel AI methods, frameworks, and tools for data-driven precision healthcare.
  • Integration: Aiding clinical and healthcare operations to design and deploy AI. 
  • Research: Promoting academic research for AI and its sociotechnical impacts.
  • Education: Leading workshops and forums with the latest in AI news: practical use, research and development, ethics, policies and laws. 

Our Services

  • Organizational standards and metrics for AI
  • Engaging stakeholders to refine priorities for AI
  • AI ethics
  • Connecting professionals with key external resources and networks
  • Ongoing development and maintenance of AI competencies 
  • Accelerating translational research to bedside care
  • Training and education for communities and key stakeholders

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Discovery

Promoting foundational AI research and development to enable data-driven precision healthcare.

Practice

Responsible, effective, and equitable implementation of novel AI capabilities in clinical settings.

Impact

Bringing social, organizational, and computational sciences together to address practical problems in health and health care.