Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $2 million federal grant to expand deployment of an AI-powered data extraction tool.
HHS’ Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health extended Vanderbilt’s award for the Democratized AI-Guided Chart Abstraction Platform through 2027, upping the total funding to just under $4 million. The health system has already spun out a commercial venture, Brim Analytics, that has been adopted by other healthcare organizations.
“Brim has quickly become part of our intelligence system infrastructure at Vanderbilt,” Vanderbilt University Medical Center CIO Neal Patel, MD, said in an Oct. 14 news release. “It provides a secure and effective way for our faculty and staff to harness large language models for chart abstraction. We’re seeing impact both in advancing research and in improving operational efficiency.”
The tool, which has been employed by over 120 Vanderbilt research and clinical teams in the past year, extracts and organizes unstructured clinical notes and reports from the EHR for uses including surgical planning, cancer registries and orthopedic research. The researchers plan to leverage the new funding to expand into clinical trial prescreening, clinical workflows, registry abstraction and retrospective research.
