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INFORMATICCON 2022

Peter Embí, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, professor and chair of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, was elected to the Tennessee Chapter of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (TN HIMSS) board of directors. He will serve as a board member until July 1, 2023.

Kim Unertl, PhD, MS, FACMI, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at VUMC, says that informatics programs can improve by actively recruiting more first-generation college graduates, especially those from communities that are underrepresented in STEM. 

Below is this week's DBMI Seminar. See below for details and Zoom info! WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 at 12:00 PM CT Event Type: DBMI Seminar Title: "Career Choices in Medical Informatics"

The prospect of the adoption of artificial intelligence-based tools by health care teams has begun to raise practical and ethical concerns, with no consensus apparently yet available regarding how health professionals might best prepare themselves to evaluate and work with such tools.

A national databank of de-identified voices, combined with artificial intelligence, could lead to diagnosing and treating cancer, depression, autism, Alzheimer’s disease and voice disorders. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is partnering with 11 institutions on a $14 million NIH-funded project led by the University of South Florida and Weill Cornell Medicine that aims to establish voice as a biomarker used in clinical care.

Pictured above: The REDCapCon in Boston drew 377 registrants from 263 institutions spanning 42 states and 22 countries on six continents.

Below is this week's DBMI Seminar. See below for details and Zoom info! WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2022 at 12:00 PM CT Event Type: DBMI Seminar Title: "EHR Data Quality in Genetic Research: Why You Should Worry & What You Can Do About It"

The Center for Improving the Public's Health through Informatics (CIPHI) team is hiring for two positions: Manager of Research Programs and a Research Coordinator. See detailed descriptions and application links below: