How data scientists are improving care by learning how to learn
Following the success of Palliative Connect, a collaboration between a data science team and Penn Medicine clinicians, specialists finalized four principles to guide practitioners across the health care landscape to apply data science, machine learning, and digital tools to improve care. The principles were presented at the first annual Informatics Day hosted by the Penn Institute for Bioinformatics on May 31.
Palliative Connect employed predictive analytics to coordinate between palliative care specialists and a patient’s primary care provider, and grew from a small pilot into clinical practice at two of Penn Medicine’s hospitals with considerable success.
“We’re creating the playbook for building these systems,” said Michael Draugelis, chief data scientist at Penn Medicine.
From finding the right problem to predicting something existing systems aren’t meant to change, the principles presented this spring create systems for problem-solving and also dictate howto learn from future projects.
Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system
Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell investigates the use of a lettuce-based, plant-encapsulated delivery platform as a new oral delivery of two GLP-1 drugs previously approved by the FDA in injectable form.
No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise
Research led by Penn neuroscientist J. Nicholas Betley and collaborators finds that hypothalamic neurons are essential for translating physical exertion into endurance, potentially opening the door to exercise-mimicking therapies.
In honor of Valentine's Day, and as a way of fostering community in her Shakespeare in Love course, Becky Friedman took her students to the University Club for lunch one class period. They talked about the movie "Shakespeare in Love," as part of a broader conversation on how Shakespeare's works are adapted.
In Becky Friedman’s English course Shakespeare in Love, undergraduate students analyze language, genre, and adaptation in the Bard’s plays through the lens of love.
Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.
