Electronic Medical Records
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Cancer Institute grant funds new integrated approach to early lung cancer detection
Vanderbilt researchers have received a National Cancer Institute grant to develop a novel, integrative approach to detect early signs of lung cancer. The four-year project builds on a related, recent study that established the value of using three separate measures—structural imaging, a protein marker and information available from electronic health records—to predict lung cancer in... Read MoreJan 22, 2021
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Vanderbilt engineers mine EMRs and clinical journals for novel disease associations and new research paths
A new tool developed by Vanderbilt engineers, in collaboration with clinical and informatic experts, can unearth novel co-morbidities from routinely collected, anonymized electronic medical records. Read MoreFeb 18, 2020