Lab news

January 2026

Our team is looking for a (senior) AI engineer! If you are interested, please check out the posting here.

December 2025

Our research exploring how AI could help social workers review patient records more efficiently was presented at the NeurIPS GenAI4Health workshop and accepted for oral presentation at AAAI, one of the leading artificial intelligence research conferences. The work investigates methods for summarizing complex medical and social information so care teams could spend more time with patients and less time searching through charts. Congrats to the team, and a big thank you to the ZSFG social work staff who helped shape this project. Read the paper here.

December 2025

Congrats to the team on having its work on building compact, transparent AI models for healthcare accepted at NeurIPS, a top venue for machine learning research. The method, BC-LLM, learns fully-interpretable risk prediction models that clinicians can use at the bedside, by learning concepts that are commonly mentioned in unstructured clinical notes. Read more here.

March 23-24, 2025

We convened the first Safety-Net Hospital AI Symposium, which was generously hosted by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation and funded by America's Essential Hospitals. We had five safety-net hospitals come together, each representing different regions across the U.S., to discuss each institution's AI strategy and how our groups can collaborate to ensure AI also serves vulnerable patient populations and low-resource hospitals. Participating members of the symposium were ZSFG (CA), Parkland (TX), Grady (GA), Spartanburg (SC), and Eskenazi (IN).

December 2024

Congrats to Luke and the team for receiving the CAPH/SNI Quality Leaders Award in Health Equity Award for the work in using AI and EHR automation tools to improve health outcomes at ZSFG and the San Francisco Health network. The Equity Award addresses inequities in underserved populations by advancing organizational and/or health equity improvement efforts. Read the press release here and watch the video here.

October 2024

Dr. Luke Zier was interviewed by ABC7 News on PROSPECT Lab's recently completed initiative using AI to improve heart failure outcomes. The initiative reduced readmission rates, reduced heart failure mortality rates and closed equity gaps in care between the Black/African American patients with heart failure and the general heart failure population. View the video here (starts at 29:24).

May 2024

Congrats to Luke and the team for receiving the ZSFG Performance/Quality Improvement Award for the work on standardizing inpatient heart failure care! Read about it here.