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Events and Publications/Funding

The Technology and Innovation team spreads information through novel publications, national conference presentations, and designing and presenting education to faculty and staff.

Events

Upcoming:

  • Eric Snyder, our Executive Director will be teaching at the University of Rochester's HSM-465 course on Wednesday 2/26/25 at 5:40pm - 7:00pm. Learn more here!
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  • Eric Snyder will be speaking at the upcoming HIMSS conference, offering the first national public look at our integrated AI systems and how they are being leveraged to drive innovation and enhance operations.

 

Past:

  • Webinar #6 - held on 11/20/24 at 12:30pm. Emily Strong will be discussed our unique Data Dictionary application and vision!  Also, check out our other episodes on the podcast page.
  • On November 15, 2024, our Clinical Director, Erika Ramsdale, was part of the panel discussion at the 2024 JADPRO Conference during the Opening Panel Discussion. The panel discussed "Understanding the  Benefits and Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence in Oncology".
  • Anna Brown our Lead Developer presented at the Wilmot Shared Resources Lunch and Learn on November 12, 2024. She discussed "Reducing Barriers for Data Analytics Seminar where she will be discussing Hyperion and Hypergen". 
  • The Galien Foundation Announces 2024 Prix Galien USA Nominees for "Best Digital Health Solution" and Hyperion is a nominee for the second year in a row!
  • Eric Snyder will be teaching at University of Rochester's HSM-465 course again Wednesday October 9th at 5:45pm. Learn more and sign up here.
  • Symposium: Overview of Hyperion – Presented at the Formicola Conference Area. Open to the Public, 09/27/2024 at Noon.
  • Our Director Eric Snyder was a guest speaker at the UR HSM465 Healthcare Data, Visualization, and Analysis on Tuesday June 25th
  • On June 14th our Head of Architecture and Senior Innovator Scott Isaacs presented Overcoming the Technical and Ethical issues of AI in the Classroom at the LSUS STEM Conference
  • On March 8th our Director, Eric Snyder, discussed technology trends in healthcare on the Gartner Technology Panel
  • Our Lead Innovator and Architect Scott Isaacs spearheaded a panel on AI in STEAM in the Full Steam Ahead Educator Symposium on February 8-9th. More details about the symposium here!
  • Galien Foundation Nomination Event on October 26th in NYC - we were nominated and took home second place!
  • NHLTH Digital Health Awards on October 8th in Las Vegas - Our very own director Eric Snyder was a judge on the Best Use of AI in Health Tech competition
  • TechRochester Woman Of The Year Award Ceremony - Our very own Lisa Smith was one of the finalists!
  • HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition presenters in 2021, 2022, 2023
    • 2023 topics were Demystifying the Cloud: You’re Just Renting Someone Else’s ServersDenials of Service: Recoding Health care Technology for Innovation and Outcomes
  • AMIA 2020 Virtual symposium
  • Lisa Smith, M.S., a senior developer for our informatics group, delivered a series of lectures at local colleges in fall of 2022 titled, “How to Leverage your STEM Education to Succeed in Health care IT." A much needed talk, which will hopefully encourage and inform the future of health IT.
  • 2022 GREAT Awards by Tech Rochester (More Here)

Publications

Articles:

  • Leveraging data is the next frontier in cancer research (Link) November 2024
  • HyperGen - Sustainability of Genomics Exploration Through Innovation (LinkNovember 2024
  • Bridging The Gap - the Critical Need For Technical Expertise In Healthcare Leadership (LinkOctober 2024
  • Beyond Hierarchies: A New Paradigm for Healthcare Technology Teams (Link) March 2024
  • Beyond the EHR: Hyperion’s Role in Streamlining Healthcare Technology for Better Outcomes (Link) March 2024
  • Innovating Healthcare Technology – Exclusive Interview With Eric Snyder (Link) February 2024
  • The Cloud: Chances Are You Are Doing It Wrong (Link) December 2023
  • Geospatial Analysis: Changing the Landscape of Healthcare Informatics by Moving Beyond Typical Business Intelligence Tools (Link) June 2023
  • Simplify Data Migration to Azure Blob Storage and Ensure Data Integrity with AzCopy (Link) June 2023
  • The Pitfalls of Polypharmacy (Link) March 2023
  • An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach to Evaluating the Association of Symptom Clusters With Adverse Outcomes Among Older Adults With Advanced Cancer (LinkMarch 2023
  • Transforming Health care Information Technology – A Paradigm Shift (Link) February 2023
  • Our Architect, Scott Isaacs, was recently mentioned for his work in AI (LinkSeptember 2022
  •  If you take several medications, ‘polypharmacy’ is a word to know (Link) May 2022
  • IT Innovations Led By Wilmot's Eric Snyder Capture National Attention (LinkApril 2022
  • Is Augmented, Virtual Reality the Future of Data Visualization? (Link) March 2022
  • Data Systems, Informatics Tools and Relationships (LinkJanuary 2022

Funding

Current:

  • Research grant for utilizing CRDT’s (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type) in healthcare
  • Two-year partnership providing custom de-identified healthcare data and consulting to a global analytics company

Past:

  • Two-year partnership providing multi-modal data to a healthcare AI startup
  • Medical Shark Tank award for pesticide usage links to cancer studies

 

Abstracts:

  • Deep Learning Serial CT Response Score Predicts Overall Survival in Advanced NSCLC Treated with PD-(L)1 Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors - this will be presented at the SITC 39th Annual Meeting (Link) August 2024
  • Associations Between Violence, Mental Health, and Cancer in Transgender and Non-Transgender People     (Link) June 2024
  • Associations Between Violence, Mental Health, and Cancer in Transgender and Non-Transgender People (Link) May 2024
  • Supervised learning applied to classifying fallers versus non-fallers among older adults with cancer (LinkMay 2023
  • Radiomics-based multi-modal prediction of treatment response to PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy in stage IV non-small cell lung carcinoma (mNSCLC) (Link) November 2022
  • Development and Implementation of an Algorithm to Identify Transgender People in a Single Institution’s Electronic Health Record (Link) June 2022
  • Optimizing Central Line Selection to Minimize Catheter-Associated Complications in Pediatric Patients with Acute Leukemia (Link) April 2022

 

Papers:

  • Magic Pen: Automatic Pen-Mode Switching for Document Annotation (Link) March 2024
  • Methodologic Approaches for Using Electronic Medical Records to Identify Experiences of Violence in Transgender and Cisgender People: Closing the Gap Between Diagnostic Coding and Lived Experiences (Link) April 2023
  • From months to minutes: creating Hyperion, a novel data management system expediting data insights for oncology research and patient care (Link) November 2022
  • Associations between interpersonal violence and cancer risk factors for transgender and cisgender people (Link) 2022
  • Cancer risk factors and cancer in transgender versus cisgender people: Real-world data from a tertiary health care institution. (Link) 2022
  • An introduction to machine learning for clinicians: How can machine learning augment knowledge in geriatric oncology? (Link) November 2021
  • Assessing Barriers to Cancer Clinical Trial Enrollment: A Potential Application of a Clinical Decision-Support Tool (Link) November 2021
  • Regional Differences in Lymphomagenesis Identified through Quantification of AICDA-Mediated Subclonal Evolution in Follicular Lymphoma: Do Pesticides Play a Role? (LinkNovember 2021
  • Portable Medical Orders and End of Life Measures in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes (LinkDecember 2021

*Not an exhaustive list