Powering Seamless Scheduling Across Aligned Clinician Enterprise
Save the Date: AI at Yale Symposium April 28, 2026
Startup Yale – Fueling Tech Innovation for the Next Decade
Advancing Clinical Trial Analytics with New Statistical Tools
AI Meets Medicine – Yale's Tech Driven Residency Pathway
Yale EMPH Program Leverages Technology for Student Success
Center of Healthcare Simulation Introduces Extended Reality Simulations
Strategic Refresh at Yale School of Medicine
Save the Date - YSM ETI TIME Series January 27, 2026
Meet "ASK HARVEY" - The Medical Library's New AI Agent
Tips and Reminders for IT Service Changes for the Health Campus
Open Positions
Other Happenings
Season’s greetings from Health Sciences IT
The Health Sciences IT (HSIT) team kicked off the holiday season with a lively social gathering at a local bowling alley, bringing together colleagues for an evening of fun, friendly competition, and connection.
A FRESH ONLINE LOOK FOR HSIT: The department launched a newly updated website. The new layout and content offer a cleaner design, easier navigation, and more comprehensive information. These enhancements, along with ongoing service offering updates, are on track and will be rolled out in the coming weeks. The Yale health campus will benefit from streamlined access to service information and team contacts, further improving the support experience.
POWERING SEAMLESS SCHEDULING ACROSS ALIGNED CLINICIAN ENTERPRISE: The ONeCall platform continues to transform provider scheduling, patient access, and clinical outcomes across the Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) and Yale School of Medicine Aligned Clinician Enterprise. Built on QGenda, ONeCall is now supporting over 6,500 scheduled providers and actively maintaining more than 400 call schedules for Yale Medicine and YNHHS hospitals, including Lawrence & Memorial, Westerly, Yale New Haven, Yale New Haven Children’s, Bridgeport/Milford, and Greenwich.
In Fall 2026, the team achieved a major milestone by integrating with Epic Secure Chat, enabling real-time communication and seamless care coordination. For 2026, the team will bring residency program schedules into MedHub, further streamlining medical education workflows and reinforcing the system’s commitment to timely communication.
SAVE THE DATE - AI AT YALE SYMPOSIUM APRIL 28, 2026: The Yale AI initiative announced the AI at Yale Symposium 2026. This event on April 28 marks the second campus-wide symposium on AI and is designed to be interdisciplinary, showcasing the broad range of AI research and scholarship across the Yale community, including topics in research, scholarship, art, education, ethics, and policymaking.
STARTUP YALE - FUELING TECH INNOVATION FOR THE NEXT DECADE: For ten years, Startup Yale, led by organizers from Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and other schools, has been a launchpad for student entrepreneurs driving digital transformation. What began as a small contest weekend now awards over $200,000 annually to ventures leveraging technology—from ed-tech platforms for early literacy to a crowd-sourced matchmaking app. Through pitch competitions, workshops, and mentorship, Startup Yale connects innovators with resources to turn ideas into impactful tech ventures. The next event will be on April 10.
ADVANCING CLINICAL TRIAL ANALYTICS WITH NEW STATISTICAL TOOLS: YSPH is spearheading innovation in clinical trial analytics through a project led by Fan Li, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics. Backed by a $2.6 million NIH grant, Li’s team is developing statistical tools to tackle the complexity of cluster-randomized trials (CRTs), which often involve multiple institutions and composite health outcomes. The initiative will deliver free, regularly updated software by 2029, enabling researchers to analyze hierarchical data structures and multiple endpoints with greater accuracy.
By integrating clinician input and leveraging collaboration with Yale’s Cardiovascular Medicine Analytics Center and Internal Medicine’s Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator, this project aims to transform trial design and analysis, ensuring more reliable, patient-centered insights for public health decision-making.
AI MEETS MEDICINE - YALE’S TECH-DRIVEN RESIDENCY PATHWAY: Yale School of Medicine (YSM) is redefining medical training through its AI and Innovation in Medicine Distinction Pathway (AIMDP). Spearheaded by leaders like Shaili Gupta, MD, this initiative empowers internal medicine residents to master coding fundamentals, explore large language models, and apply AI responsibly in patient care, research, and education. With guidance from faculty across medicine, law, computer science, and ethics, AIMDP prepares future physicians to become innovators who harness technology to improve outcomes and reduce bias.
YALE EMPH PROGRAM LEVERAGES TECHNOLOGY FOR STUDENT SUCCESS: The YSPH Executive MPH (EMPH) program exemplifies how technology can transform education for working professionals. By integrating Canvas as the central learning management system, Zoom for interactive sessions, Panopto for secure media storage, and Rev for accessible captioning, the EMPH program delivers a flexible, hybrid learning experience tailored to diverse student needs. The Yale Teaching Studios (formerly known as the Broadcast Studio) further enhances content delivery, ensuring high-quality engagement when students view their asynchronous online lectures.
These digital tools have enabled students to overcome barriers such as geographic distance and caregiving responsibilities, fostering a collaborative, cohort-based environment where learners connect, share insights, and advance their careers. The program’s technology-driven approach has not only expanded access but also elevated the quality of public health education, empowering students to thrive in a rapidly evolving field.
CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE SIMULATION INTRODUCES EXTENDED REALITY SIMULATIONS: The Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation (YCHS) piloted extended reality (XR) simulations into the emergency medicine residency curriculum. XR is increasingly becoming an alternative modality for healthcare simulation, with strengths in cost-effectiveness, the ability to perform simulations across multiple sites, and the ability to simulate environments often difficult to replicate using in-situ or manikin-based simulation. Many Yale residency programs have also expressed interest in partnering with YCHS to incorporate XR simulation into their curricula.
STRATEGIC REFRESH AT YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: YSM is embarking on an exciting new chapter with the 2026 draft refresh of its strategic plan. Initiated at the chairs retreat in June 2024, the original plan reflects insights from nearly 700 survey participants, 100 interviews, and discussions across 21 focus groups—including faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members. The 2026 plan aligns with recently articulated strategies for clinical enterprise and medical education.
Key themes emerging from this process include enhanced communication, mentorship, collaboration, administrative excellence, investment in AI and technology, and commitment to community engagement. The YSM community is invited to provide feedback by Dec. 22.
SAVE THE DATE - YSM ETI TIME SERIES ON JAN. 27: Join the Yale School of Medicine community for lightning talks and demos from faculty whose ideas have evolved into pioneering tech pilots.
January ETI TIME Series: Technology Innovation in Medical Education
Event: From Ideathon to Pilots: Lightning Talk Updates from Faculty
Enjoy a light breakfast and coffee from 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM, followed by captivating lightning talks and demos from 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM. In March 2025, seven Yale School of Medicine faculty presented ideas for novel technology projects at the ETI Ideathon to an audience of 43 school members. Where are they now? Listen to how those ideas have grown into pilots. Topics will include extended reality in Anatomy, AI for simulated patients, ambient listening for clinical skills, vibe coding, and more. RSVP to Attend
MEET "ASK HARVEY" - THE MEDICAL LIBRARY'S NEW AI AGENT: The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library has introduced "Ask Harvey," an in-house AI agent designed to enhance the library's information services using large language models. Available on the Medical Library website, Ask Harvey provides quick responses to common user inquiries while intelligently referring complex research questions to library staff. Built on an open-source framework, the agent goes beyond simple text generation; it uses reasoning to select the appropriate tools for the user's request, such as searching the library catalog, querying PubMed, or accessing a curated knowledge base.
To ensure responsible use, Ask Harvey includes safety guardrails. It does not provide medical advice, and it filters out inappropriate or off-topic requests. Since its launch in March, Ask Harvey has supported over 5,000 interactions and maintains a user satisfaction rating of 4.61 out of 5. The Medical Library is committed to improving Ask Harvey based on user feedback, ensuring it remains a valuable resource for its patrons.
DECEMBER 2025 TIPS AND REMINDERS FOR IT SERVICE CHANGES FOR HEALTH CAMPUS:
Customer Engagement
HSIT xChange
In January, we are launching the HSIT xChange series. The hybrid monthly meeting will serve as a forum for end-users to ask questions about upcoming changes on the Health Campus. The service owners and members from HSIT will present topics and answer questions.
Each session will feature service owners and HSIT team members who will present timely topics, share updates, and engage in open Q&A. The goal is to increase transparency, surface feedback early, and ensure the campus community is informed, prepared, and heard as changes are introduced.
The Health Sciences IT website launched this month. Stay tuned for updates planned for the Teams and Services section in the coming weeks.
Storage and File Sharing
As previously announced on Oct. 9, Yale ITS will retire from the Box at Yale service on Mar. 31, 2026. To date, 5,210 individuals have already transitioned from using Box at Yale.
The new migration date for YSM is Feb. 20 at 5 p.m. This has been moved from the previous date due to the FAS/SEAS migration.
There have also been a few minor adjustments to the migration process based on experience gained while migrating to the other professional schools.
All employees will be required to obtain a new badge prior to the end of the fiscal year. The university is rolling out new badges in phases, with the second phase beginning in January. New badges can be picked up in the Anlyan Center (TAC) lobby.
Schedule:
School of Public Health and Environmental Health and Safety: Jan. 6 – Jan. 9
School of Medicine (last names A-K): Jan. 12 – Jan. 16
School of Medicine (last names L-Z): Jan. 20 – Jan. 23
After their scheduled week, everyone can pick up their ID at the ID Center, 57 Lock Street.
The Regulated Research Data at Yale website serves as a centralized resource for researchers working with regulated data. It highlights Yale’s purpose-built computational platforms that are compliant with HIPAA and NIST 800-171, along with the compliance guidance and technical support available to the research community.
Key elements of the centralized hub for regulated research data computing, including secure computing environments, access management, training, compliance support, and expert assistance—all in one place.
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