Department Of Biomedical Informatics

  • Vanderbilt University

    Team to develop suicide risk model for military

    Researchers at Vanderbilt University and Florida State University have received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Military Suicide Research Consortium to develop and evaluate tools to help U.S. Navy primary care teams detect and manage suicide risk. Read More

    Jan 18, 2018

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    Project seeks to help people interact with medical records

    Apple has Siri, Google has Google Assistant, Microsoft has Cortana. A team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is creating voice-controlled virtual assistant software to help people interact with electronic health records (EHR). Read More

    Jan 4, 2018

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    Sorting patient messages automatically

    Automated techniques can assist in understanding and managing growing volumes of messages sent through secure patient portals, Vanderbilt researchers found. Read More

    Dec 20, 2017

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    Team’s mobile app helping healthcare workers in Africa

    A smartphone application called mUzima, developed for healthcare workers by Vanderbilt’s Martin Were, MD, MS, and his team, is catching on in eastern Africa. Read More

    Nov 16, 2017

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    Meet Vanderbilt’s first Academic Pathways fellows

    Seven outstanding Ph.D.’s with diverse backgrounds and experiences have come to Vanderbilt to pursue postdoctoral training with an eye toward academic careers. Read More

    Oct 27, 2017

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    Team seeks to build EMR system for battlefield scenarios

    Daniel Fabbri, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics and Computer Science, has been awarded a $1.7 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to create an automated clinical documentation system for use in battlefield ambulances and helicopters. Read More

    Oct 19, 2017

  • Major makeover set  to expand My Health at Vanderbilt features

    Major makeover set to expand My Health at Vanderbilt features

    My Health at Vanderbilt (MHAV) is an online software application that lets patients interact with their electronic medical records, communicate securely with their health care team and pay medical bills electronically. Read More

    Oct 12, 2017

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    Malin appointed to European EHR anonymization group

    Vanderbilt’s Bradley Malin, Ph.D., has been appointed to the Technical Anonymization Group, recently established by the European Medicines Agency to advise it regarding best practices for the anonymization of patient information used in research. Read More

    Sep 14, 2017

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    Report identifies IT upgrades needed to enhance cancer care

    A group of nationally recognized medical information and data management experts has recommended the development of new knowledge software applications that work alongside electronic health record systems (EHRs) to help practicing oncologists access and use the latest genomic information to assist in the treatment of cancer patients. Read More

    Aug 17, 2017

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    Scientists create unique disease ‘catalog’ linked to immune system gene variations

    A study led by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy has generated the first comprehensive catalog of diseases in a single population associated with variations in HLA genes that regulate the body's immune system. Read More

    May 10, 2017

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    Talking health IT

    Vindell Washington, M.D., MHCM, former national coordinator for health information technology with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke at Vanderbilt University Medical Center last week. Read More

    Apr 20, 2017

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    Risky business

    Vanderbilt investigators have developed hospital readmission models that may help prevent payment penalties to hospitals when patients are readmitted too soon after discharge. Read More

    Apr 5, 2017

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    Investigators use machine learning to predict suicide risk

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2013 there were 41,149 suicides in the U.S., making it the 10th leading cause of death that year. Among high school students in 2013, the CDC estimates that over the previous 12 months 2.7 percent had sometime made a suicide attempt resulting in injury, poisoning or overdose that required medical attention. Read More

    Mar 9, 2017

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    Denny named to list of top experts in health information technology

    Joshua Denny, M.D., M.S., professor of Biomedical Informatics and associate professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt, has been named to an annual list of the 50 leading experts in health care information technology by Health Data Management, a trade news publication. Read More

    Jan 12, 2017

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    Investigators apply game theory to study of genomic privacy

    It comes down to privacy — biomedical research can’t proceed without human genomic data sharing, and genomic data sharing can’t proceed without some reasonable level of assurance that de-identified data from patients and other research participants will stay de-identified after they’re released for research. Read More

    Jan 12, 2017

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    Vanderbilt team a winner in health data privacy competition

    A two-member team from Vanderbilt has won the 2016 iDASH Healthcare Privacy Protection Challenge, a competition open to international participants and devoted this year to privacy protection for genome analysis in a cloud computing environment. Read More

    Dec 1, 2016

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    Rheumatoid subtypes explored by PheWAS

    A computer-based method pioneered at Vanderbilt is being used to compare subtypes of rheumatoid arthritis. Read More

    Oct 7, 2016

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    Levi Watkins Jr., M.D. Lecture is Oct. 11

    Dr. Kevin B. Johnson will deliver the 15th annual Levi Watkins Jr., M.D. Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 11. The event will begin at noon in Light Hall, Room 208. Read More

    Sep 26, 2016

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    Frisse honored by American Medical Informatics Association

    Mark Frisse, M.D., M.S., MBA, Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics and vice chair for business development in that department, has been selected to receive the American Medical Informatics Association’s 2016 Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics. Read More

    Sep 15, 2016

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    Transcription factor evolution

    Vanderbilt researchers have discovered a novel model of evolution for factors that control gene expression. Read More

    Aug 11, 2016