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DBMI Digest Dec 2022 Issue—Now Available!

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the December 2022 DBMI Digest here. Each DBMI Digest features department & faculty announcements, awards & appointments, educational & HR updates, funding opportunities and more. Each issue also includes a profile of one of our faculty, staff, postdocs and students. 

VUMC’s BioVU Reaches Milestone With Biological Samples

BioVU, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s biobank, has reached another milestone — deep-freeze storage of more than 300,000 biological samples. Launched in 2007, BioVU is the world’s largest DNA biobank based at a single academic institution.

Surgical Risk Persists for Patients Who’ve Had COVID

When patients undergo any type of surgery after having had COVID, their odds of significant postoperative problems diminish with elapsed time from COVID diagnosis. Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center now report that this trend of decreasing risk persists longer than previously known, for as long as 13 months after COVID. Their report appeared Dec. 14 in JAMA Network Open.

DBMI Special Seminar: James Cimino, 12/8 at 11AM CST

DBMI Special Seminar: James Cimino, 12/8 at 11:00 am CST THURSDAY, December 8, 2022 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT   Title: "Applying Clinical Informatics to Reinvent the EHR: Moving from Billing Diary to Clinical Assistant"