VAPIR

  • Anesthesiology debuts new patient outcomes system

    Anesthesiology debuts new patient outcomes system

    The Vanderbilt Anesthesiology and Perioperative Informatics Research (VAPIR) Division has launched a novel system that connects clinicians in the Department of Anesthesiology to their patients’ outcomes. Read More

    Mar 3, 2016

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    Informatics for the Classroom and the Operating Room

    Using the EHR (electronic health record) and natural language processing, the School of Medicine keeps track of each student’s exposure to patient problems across the curricular spectrum, allowing the school to advance students on a more individualized basis. Read More

    Sep 26, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Division mines perioperative data to enhance safety, quality

    The Vanderbilt Anesthesiology and Perioperative Informatics Research (VAPIR) Division was recently established to extract and analyze data from Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s archive of de-identified perioperative patient data comprising more than 729,000 completed surgical cases to help improve patient safety and quality of care. Read More

    Feb 13, 2014