Health and education

• National Science Foundation names UT El Paso in the first round of CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service awards

  Health and educationU.S. National Science FoundationEl PasoWrite to the decider

• Houston ISD carried an artificial intelligence board policy to a second reading

  Health and educationHouston Independent School District Board of ManagersHarrisPublic meeting

• House Public Health held an interim hearing on artificial intelligence use in health care

  Health and educationTexas House Committee on Public HealthStatewideWrite to the decider

• UTMB moved its Epic health record into Microsoft's cloud and named advanced technologies as the reason

  Health and educationThe University of Texas Medical BranchGalvestonWrite to the decider

• A generative AI platform at UTMB reached the UT System Regents only on its third amendment, at $9,850,000, and now covers all seven health institutions

  Health and educationThe University of Texas System Board of RegentsGalvestonPublic meeting

• UT System Regents put the first billion dollars of the UT Dell Medical Center into the capital program

  Health and educationUniversity of Texas System Board of RegentsTravisClosed

• UT Austin puts a computer science and AI course in the core every undergraduate takes

  Health and educationUniversity of Texas at AustinTravisClosed

• Houston Methodist put an imaging AI in front of its radiologists and says out loud that it is imperfect

  Health and educationHouston MethodistHarrisClosed

• UT Southwestern says AI now does most of the grading on its medical students' clinical exam notes

  Health and educationUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterDallasClosed

• The University of Texas at Austin requires every course syllabus to state its AI policy

  Health and educationThe University of Texas at Austin, Office of the Executive Vice President and ProvostTravisClosed

• Texas A&M tells its campus to run AI through a university portal rather than a public chatbot

  Health and educationTexas A&M University Technology ServicesBrazosWrite to the decider

• University of North Texas lists an undergraduate artificial intelligence degree

  Health and educationUniversity of North TexasDentonWrite to the decider

• Case managers beat Houston Methodist's discharge AI on the last day

  Health and educationHouston Methodist HospitalHarrisWrite to the decider

• The board takes a required high school money course to final adoption, and the text it published names AI tools in three of its chapters

  Health and educationTexas State Board of EducationStatewideClosed

• Texas Children's and UT Southwestern radiologists publish that imaging AI has largely skipped children

  Health and educationAmerican Journal of Roentgenology Expert Panel, with radiologists at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital and at UT Southwestern Medical CenterHarris, DallasWrite to the decider

• An MD Anderson and UT Medical Branch MRI model scored lower on patients it was not built on

  Health and educationThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, with The University of Texas Medical BranchHarris, GalvestonWrite to the decider

• Houston academic physician group moves from two ambient AI pilots toward one unified documentation platform

  Health and educationUT Physicians, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth HoustonHarrisWrite to the decider

• Memorial Hermann clinicians send Houston patients an AI drafted explanation of their own test results

  Health and educationMemorial Hermann Health SystemHarrisWrite to the decider

• The University of North Texas takes a twenty million dollar gift and names a college of artificial intelligence after the donors

  Health and educationUniversity of North TexasDentonWrite to the decider

• A three campus Texas trial tests whether a phone microphone held to the abdomen can count fetal movement by machine

  Health and educationUniversity of Texas at AustinTravis, Harris, GalvestonWrite to the decider

• UT Arlington replaces its business analytics degrees with artificial intelligence degrees

  Health and educationUniversity of Texas at Arlington College of BusinessTarrantWrite to the decider

• Richardson ISD drafts a legislative ask that puts classroom AI guidance first

  Health and educationRichardson Independent School District Board of TrusteesDallasPublic meeting

• A machine scores the longer written answers on English STAAR first

  Health and educationTexas Education AgencyStatewideWrite to the decider

• Texas Children's and Baylor researchers name a likely genetic cause of a rare disorder after an AI tool flagged the gene

  Health and educationDuncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, with Baylor College of Medicine and the Texome ProjectHarrisWrite to the decider

• State education staff helped Alpha School's AI platform into pilots in Houston, Aldine and Fort Davis

  Health and educationHouston ISD, Aldine ISD and Fort Davis ISDHarris, Jeff DavisPublic meeting

• UT REAL Health AI funds 12 pilot projects that put AI into UT System hospitals and medical schools

  Health and educationThe University of Texas SystemBexar, Travis, Dallas, Galveston, Harris, Smith, HidalgoWrite to the decider

• UTMB puts OpenEvidence's AI answers inside its health record and says more than half of its clinicians use it

  Health and educationUniversity of Texas Medical BranchGalvestonWrite to the decider

• UT REAL Health AI signs a systemwide agreement letting UT health institutions use Abridge's ambient note taking

  Health and educationThe University of Texas SystemStatewideWrite to the decider

• Austin Community College drafts what it calls its first AI policy under a five rule framework and opens it to a town hall on October 12th

  Health and educationAustin Community College DistrictTravisPublic meeting

• Houston Methodist ties camera AI in 15 cardiothoracic surgery rooms to about 25 more cases a month, and says it can't prove the cameras caused it

  Health and educationHouston Methodist HospitalHarrisWrite to the decider

• UT Southwestern finds AI triage models moved some emergency patients who later got worse down the line after one stigmatizing detail was added

  Health and educationUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterDallasWrite to the decider

• Texas 2036 finds AI in most Texas classrooms and a written AI policy in few districts, and asks the state for guidance

  Health and educationTexas 2036, a nonprofit public policy organizationStatewideWrite to the decider

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