Genetics and EHR's
Lisa Bastarache, MS, research assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics, and Tony Capra, PhD, associate professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics, described the intersection of genetics and electronic health records during last week’s Cutting-Edge Discovery Lecture. For the full article, click here.
New center seeks to strengthen clinical informatics
The primary idea driving clinical informatics is that we should use computerized information systems to help people make better clinical decisions,” said Adam Wright, PhD, who joined Vanderbilt last August as director of clinical decision support and the new Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC). For the full article, click here.
VUMC study to use artificial intelligence to explore suicide risk
With the help of a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center will use computational methods to shed light on suicidal ideation and its relationship to attempted suicide, predict suicidal ideation and suicide attempt using routine electronic health records (EHRs) and explore the genetic underpinnings of both. For full article click here,
Dr. Stead and Dr. Balser produce article in NEJM Catalyst
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Student research awards from AMIA
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Dr. Josh Denny Selected to lead national "All of Us" program
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Travis Osterman, DO, MS receives Microsoft Fellowship
Travis Osterman, DO, MS, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine and director of cancer clinical informatics at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been awarded a Microsoft Investigator Fellowship. Read the full story here
