UCSF DoC-IT

By @lisarotenstein.bsky.social Christopher Toretsky Elaine Khoong @urmimalasarkar.bsky.social @julia-adler-mils.bsky.social

📢 New UCSF research in @JAMANetworkOpen highlights a key tension in outpatient care delivery.

🌟 Findings suggest time spent in the visit, not just responsiveness, matters.

🧵 Read in JAMA: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Listen to @sarahpollet.bsky.social & Julia Bongiorno explain how #UCSF’s IMPACC framework supports safe, equitable, and effective AI use on a new podcast. #AIinHealthcare @ucsfdocit.bsky.social

@sarahpollet.bsky.social @jyazdanymd.bsky.social @julia-adler-mils.bsky.social @saramurray.bsky.social

🎙️ New podcast!

How do we make AI in healthcare safe, trusted, and clinically useful?

On Vizient's podcast, UCSF’s Sarah Pollet & Julia Bongiorno share how the IMPACC framework helps guide responsible AI deployment at the frontlines of care.

Listen: knowledgeonthego.podbean.com/e/ai-in-heal...

🌟Register for CODEX's July webinar!

"Advancing Diagnostic Excellence: From Artificial Intelligence to Patient Impact"
Ft. @gracecordovano.bsky.social @prpayne5.bsky.social

🗓️ Thursday, July 24, 2025
🕥 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Pacific Time

🔗 Register: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...

@sumantranji.bsky.social

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AFHS Research Network Webinar: Evaluation Frameworks for the 4M’s Using EHR Data. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the... In this session Robert Thombley, from the UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation, will give an overview of two AFHS measurement frameworks and describe the process of identif...

🚨 Upcoming webinar alert!

"Evaluation Frameworks for the 4M’s Using EHR Data"

🗓️ Friday, July 18
🕘 9 a.m. Pacific Time / 12 p.m. Eastern Time

🔗 Register: ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation.

Looking for a motivated postdoc to work at the intersection of multimodal foundation models and medicine! If you're excited about exploring real-world data and transforming clinical care, please apply! @ucsfdocit.bsky.social @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

📢 UCSF’s M2AI Lab is hiring a Postdoc in Multimodal Medical AI!

Lead research on multimodal foundation models for medicine to improve diagnosis & treatment decisions—working across AI, clinical data & real-world care.

🔗 Apply now: docit.ucsf.edu/news/were-hi...

@madhumitasushil.bsky.social

🧠 New resource: Diagnostic Excellence Primers

What is diagnostic excellence—and how do we achieve it?

UCSF CODEX is proud to help share this three-part primer series exploring diagnostic excellence, clinical reasoning, and system-level solutions.

Read them here: codex.ucsf.edu/resources/pr...

AMIA 2025 Annual Symposium The Annual Symposium convenes thousands of informaticians from around the world to share research and insights for leveraging health information and cutting-edge technologies to improve human health.

AMIA 2025 Annual Symposium comes to Atlanta, Nov. 15-19! Experience innovative informatics in the city that houses the CDC. This year's expanded public health track connects perfectly with Atlanta's healthcare community. Plus great dining & culture await.

Register:

UCSF Bioinformatics Pioneer Atul Butte Dies at 55 Atul Butte, who championed the use of big data in science and health care and inspired a generation of trainees at UC San Francisco and beyond to pursue the fields he pioneered — translational and cli...

The UCSF community mourns the passing of Atul Butte, MD, PhD, a bold thinker, inspiring mentor and founding director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.

tiny.ucsf.edu/tGz3QY

Out now: CODEX Digest - June 26, 2025

Highlights include new insights on overdiagnosis, cognitive uncertainty, and machine learning tools in cancer care, emergency triage, and pediatric ICUs.

Explore this week's must-reads: codex.ucsf.edu/codex-digest...

Thrilled to see my book on healthcare Al available for preorder! sites.prh.com/preview/6f5c...
I tried to cut through the hype, with stories & insights on everything from scribes to surgery, hallucinations to misinformation, med education to regulation. Plus "Will there be doctors?"@portfoliobooks

🚨 Upcoming webinar alert!

"Research-Driven Practices for Empowering the AFHS Workforce"

🗓️ June 27
🕘 9 a.m. Pacific Time

Join us to hear from an expert panel on how to train and support the age-friendly care workforce.

🔗 Register: ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🌟Register for CODEX's June webinar!

"Talking AI with Patients: A Roundtable on What Health Systems Should Say—and Hear"
Ft. Beth Daley Ullem and Christopher Longhurst

🗓️ June 24, 2025
🕥 12:30-1:30 p.m. Pacific Time

🔗 Register: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...

Agenda

🚨 Keynote Alert! DoC-IT Chief @julia-adler-mils.bsky.social kicks off the Stanford AIMI Symposium on June 3. Don’t miss this essential talk on the intersection of tech and care, "Closing the Gap between AI Capabilities and Health System Readiness." #AIMI25

🔗 aimi.stanford.edu/aimi25/agenda

Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH

In case you missed it, ARC Core Faculty member Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH, was named Executive Director of AI Monitoring in Clinical Care for the UCSF Dept of Medicine’s Division of Clinical Informatics & Digital Transformation. @jyazdanymd.bsky.social @ucsfdocit.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social

Thank you all at #CIC25 for stopping by during the poster session
Follow below to learn more about all the informatics work being done at UCSF.

@ucsfdocit.bsky.social

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#ClinicalInformatics
#MedSky

Upcoming event! This Friday, join us online for the next #AFHS Research Network Webinar, which will focus on AI use for implementing, documenting, and evaluating the 4Ms.

🗓️ Fri. May 23
🕘 9 a.m. Pacific Time
🔗 ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation.

📢 New Webinar Recording! "Generative AI and Medicine: A View from the National Academy of Medicine" ft. Thomas M. Maddox

He emphasized that the greatest value lies in thoughtful human-AI collaboration, where tech augments clinical judgment while preserving empathy.

🔗 codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...

Physicians on understaffed teams are 2x more likely to report burnout and nearly 3x more likely to consider leaving their jobs. Staffing matters—for care and clinician wellbeing.
🔗https://docit.ucsf.edu/news/incomplete-staffing-linked-increased-burnout-and-turnover-intentions-among-us-physicians-new

New in @JAMAInternalMed

We show that pt messages remained elevated even after the COVID pandemic, while calls peaked then dropped. Suggests that messages are net new work esp for PCPs
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Congrats to DoC-IT's @lisarotenstein.bsky.social, named the 2025 @societygim.bsky.social Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year! 🎉 Her research is transforming care delivery, digital practice, and health equity.

🔗 Read more about this and Lisa's exemplary work: docit.ucsf.edu/news/lisa-ro...

🎉 Congratulations to our #SGIM25 Award Winner! 🎉

Please join us in celebrating Lisa Rotenstein, MBA, MD (@lisarotenstein.bsky.social), recipient of the Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year Award. Their outstanding work exemplifies excellence in #GIM.

👏 Help us congratulate Lisa!

@julia-adler-mils.bsky.social Abimbola Fadairo-Azi @ajh.bsky.social @lisarotenstein.bsky.social

🚨#ARM2025 is less than a month away! Plan on joining DoC-IT experts sharing cutting-edge research on digital tools, clinical data, and health equity.

🗓 June 7–10 | 📍 Minneapolis, MN
🔗 Full DoC-IT session lineup: docit.ucsf.edu/events/acade...

See you there!

@academyhealth.bsky.social

Heading to #SGIM2025 in Hollywood, FL? Don’t miss sessions ft. @lisarotenstein.bsky.social on rethinking primary care, from compensation reform to ambient tech to burnout + staffing. Stop by or connect!

🗓️ May 14-17
🔗 docit.ucsf.edu/events/sgim-...

@societygim.bsky.social

Excited to share this JAMA Internal Medicine article that came out today comparing the quality of GPT-drafted hospital discharge summaries to physician-written ones. Bottom line: Both contain errors, but perform similarly on many metrics. tinyurl.com/44pdtvz2 Kudos to my MANY collaborators.

🌟Register for CODEX's May webinar!

Join Thomas Maddox, MD, SM, lead author of the new @nam.edu special report and NEJM companion piece, to explore how we can responsibly bring GenAI into medicine and the risks we must manage.

🔗 Register: codex.ucsf.edu/events/codex...

@sumantranji.bsky.social