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Roles
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Clinical
- Hospitalist, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Medical Informatics
- VUMC Department of Biomedical Informatics
- Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center
Bioethics
- Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Research & Projects
Current
- Measuring patient literacy of artificial intelligence in healthcare
- Trust in AI for healthcare among racial and ethnic minority cancer patients
- Lifecycle of AI in healthcare; points of harm and suggestions for mitigating harm
- Evaluating the clinical reasoning process of predictive model use within appropriate and inappropriate patient contexts
- Examining the presence of bias in EHR behavioral flags
- Systematic review of patient perspectives on important endpoints of physical activity measures
- Review of AI training for clinicians in a clinical context
Planned Future Work
- Construction of an EHR simulation case involving an artificially intelligent tool
- Influence of digitization on meaning of health and illness
- Conceptualization of the digital health care setting
- Informed consent in patient portal photograph submission
- Utilization of literary tools to guide clinical documentation
- The role of video games in palliative care
- Educational notes in the EHR
- internal EHR hyperlinks in notes
- Documentation of baseline lab values in EHR notes
- Pull-in lab values into documentation easily
- The use of Occam's Razor in primary diagnosis
- The meaning of invasiveness in context of artificial intelligence for healthcare
- Ethics of AI for healthcare in the medical education curriculum
- Ethical implementation process of an AI CDS tool
- Redefining Health and Illness in the context of datafication and AI age of healthcare
- Collection and use of skin tone data in healthcare with AI
- Access to medical care and commercialization of AI for healthcare
- Collection of BIPOC AI data, between a history of medical exploitation and a future of health equity
Prior Work
- Development of an online teaching module on algorithmic bias for clinicians
- Planning default screens for Adventist Health Portland go-live with Epic
- Clinical photography processes
- Presence of bias in transfer center data on acceptance of interhospital transfers to tertiary academic medical center
- Review of COVID-19 best practice alert and testing algorithm
- Review of Clostroides difficile best practice alert
- Review of SBIRT documentation processes for OCHIN
- The meaning of invasiveness in the use of neurotechnology
Updates
In recognition of #BlackHistoryMonth, we asked a few of our DBMI members what the month means to them & how #informatics & those working in #healthcare can improve #healthequity.
— vumcDBMI (@vumcdbmi) February 21, 2023
Benjamin Collins, MD, MA, MS, #postdoc in DBMI @VUMChealth , shares what #BHM means to him. 1/ pic.twitter.com/Z2CiKIzj8H
February 21, 2023
Included as part of Black History Month celebration at VUMC.
Kudos to former @OHSUInformatics Clinical Informatics Fellow Dr. Benjamin Collins who won the @AMIAinformatics Linking Informatics and Education Academic Forum Conference (LIEAF) Best Paper Award at #AMIA2022 pic.twitter.com/PeW1fN7MTj
— William Hersh (@williamhersh) November 7, 2022
November 7, 2022
Received best paper award for submission to AMIA Academic Forum.
December 27, 2021
Received invitation to join the scientific program committee for the 2022 AMIA Symposium.
November 4, 2021
Presented at the AMIA Symposium in San Diego, CA on Examining the Sociotechnical Process of Clinical Photography to Encourage Photo Diversity in Medical Education.