Lab profile
About UNLV AI for Healthcare
An interdisciplinary research group that applies artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large-scale data analytics to healthcare challenges. The team bridges computer science, nursing, and public health to develop AI-driven tools and analytical frameworks that help clinicians, policymakers, and researchers make better decisions to improve patient outcomes across diverse populations.
01 · Research focus
Research areas and highlights
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- Pilot Testing an All-Payer Claims Database for Maternal Risk-Appropriate CareHarnessing a 4TB statewide claims database to identify risk factors for severe maternal morbidity and test AI-driven interventions for equitable care.
- Artificial Intelligence for Nursing Quality & Practice ImprovementApplying NLP and predictive modeling to nursing administrative data to surface quality insights, identify care gaps, and build scalable classification pipelines for clinical decision support.
- AI-Driven Classification of Nursing Diagnoses in Administrative Claims DataLeveraging transformer-based models (BEHRT) to automatically classify nursing diagnoses from ICD-coded claims enabling scalable population-level nursing quality research.
- Immersive VR Training for Nursing Edge Cases & Clinical EmergenciesUsing UNLV's VR/AR infrastructure and Unity development to build immersive simulation environments for rare, high-stakes scenarios nurses may rarely encounter.
02 · People
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03 · Research intelligence
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05 · Official presence
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06 · Related
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