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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 return as a Guest Lecturer for HSM 465 at the University of Rochester, Simon School of Business on July 1, 2025, at 5:40 pm. The session will be titled "Strategies, Stories, and Solutions from the Field." Click here to learn more!
Scott Isaacs, our Chief Architect and Senior Innovator, will be leading the roundtable discussion "Innovation from Within: Strategies for Nurturing Innovation Internally" on June 10, 2025 at the Healthcare IT Institute being held from June 8-10, 2025, in New Orleans, LA. Our work has been recognized by Nas Panwar, Chief Production Officer at IPMI in a recent LinkedIn post where he spotlights the work our team is doing to drive innovation from within. Click here to read the post.
Eric Snyder, our Executive Director will be speaking at Becker's 10th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference on Thursday, October 2, 2025. Eric will participate in the panel discussion, "How to Stay Ahead of the Innovation Adoption Curve," where he will discuss strategies for navigating innovation in healthcare.

Past:

Our Chief Architect Scott Isaacs participated in the LSU Shreveport Computer Science Advisory Board on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, which included the review of Senior Capstone projects for this years graduating CS students.
Eric Snyder spoke at the HIMSS conference on March 5, 2025, offering the first national public look at our integrated AI systems and how they are being leveraged to drive innovation and enhance operations.
Eric Snyder, our Executive Director, taught at the University of Rochester's HSM-465 course on Wednesday February 26, 2025. Learn more here!
On February 19, 2025, JC Conrad presented Webinar #8, showcasing our advanced Hyperion Ticketing platform. Click here to watch the full session.
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 taught at the University of Rochester's HSM-465 course on October 9, 2024. Learn more here.
Symposium: Overview of Hyperion – Presented at the Formicola Conference Area. Open to the Public, September 27, 2024.

Our Director Eric Snyder was a guest speaker at the UR HSM465 Healthcare Data, Visualization, and Analysis on Tuesday, June 25, 2024.
On June 14, 2024, 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 8, 2024, 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, 2024. More details about the symposium here!
Galien Foundation Nomination Event on October 26, 2023, in NYC - we were nominated and took home second place!
NHLTH Digital Health Awards on October 8, 2023, in Las Vegas - Our very own director Eric Snyder was a judge on the Best Use of AI in Health Tech competition.
Our very own Lisa Smith was one of the finalists at the 2023 Tech Rochester Women of the Year Award Ceremony.
HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition presenters in 2021, 2022, 2023.
- 2023 topics were Demystifying the Cloud: You’re Just Renting Someone Else’s Servers & Denials of Service: Recoding Health care Technology for Innovation and Outcomes.
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
AMIA 2020 Virtual symposium

Publications

Articles:

Hyperion Data Manager Platform was featured in the latest special edition of Wilmot Cancer Institute’s Dialogue magazine, recognizing the innovation and achievements of our team. Click here to read the article!
Dr. Erika Ramsdale, our Medical Director, shares her insights on the When Science Speaks podcast. She discusses "Communicating Facts and Feelings to Effectively Care for Cancer Patients" (Link) March 2025.
Eric Snyder, our Executive Director, was recently featured in the Becker's Health Review Speaker Series, where he addressed the question, 'If you had to eliminate one legacy system today, which would it be?'" (Link) February 2025
Our Executive Director, Eric Snyder recently spoke with Becker's Healthcare on the technology shaping our future in healthcare. (Link) January 2025
FHIR in Healthcare: Navigating the Challenges of Adoption (Link) January 2025
Leveraging data is the next frontier in cancer research (Link) November 2024
HyperGen - Sustainability of Genomics Exploration Through Innovation (Link) November 2024
Bridging The Gap - the Critical Need For Technical Expertise In Healthcare Leadership (Link) October 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 (Link) March 2023
Transforming Health care Information Technology – A Paradigm Shift (Link) February 2023
Our Architect, Scott Isaacs, was recently mentioned for his work in AI (Link) September 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 (Link) April 2022
Is Augmented, Virtual Reality the Future of Data Visualization? (Link) March 2022
Data Systems, Informatics Tools and Relationships (Link) January 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 (Link) May 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? (Link) November 2021
Portable Medical Orders and End of Life Measures in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes (Link) December 2021

*Not an exhaustive list