Reporter Dec 18 2015

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has announced an agreement with Epic Systems Corp., a privately owned health care software company based in Verona, Wisconsin, to provide key clinical, administrative and billing software to the Medical Center. Read More

During the past year, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) placed highly in several of the various rankings conducted by U.S. News and World Report. Read More

Numerous key leadership roles at Vanderbilt University Medical Center were filled during the past year. Read More

The following is a roundup of the news that made headlines at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2015. Read More

Santa stopped by Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt last week to visit with patients and families and pass out gifts to children. Read More

Vanderbilt teams in the market for specialized software have a new in-house information technology group to call upon. Read More

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) — the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging — recently presented Walter Frontera, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, with its 2015 Excellence in Rehabilitation of Aging Persons Award. Read More

The Middle Tennessee Advanced Practice Nurses Association recently named Vanderbilt’s Jennifer Jayaram, MSN, FNP, its Advanced Practice Nurse of the Year. The organization is an affiliate of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Read More

After 31 years and nearly 6,000 patient flights, LifeFlight’s Tom Grubbs has decided to hang up his helmet and retire. Read More

Nominations for this year’s Vanderbilt Prize Scholar are now being accepted. The deadline is Feb. 8, 2016. Read More

As of Dec. 1, employee compliance with the influenza vaccination policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has reached 99.9 percent, up from 80 percent on Dec.1, 2014 Read More

Country music artists Maddie & Tae recently performed for patients at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Read More

Enrollment has opened for Case Studies in Personalized Medicine, Vanderbilt's latest free massive open online course, or MOOC. The six-week course starts Jan. 15. Read More

Architectural rendering of the new Seacrest Studios inside Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, in partnership with the Ryan Seacrest Foundation (RSF), announced today that they are building a new state-of-the-art, multimedia broadcast studio, named Seacrest Studios, inside… Read More