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Reducing documentation burden on U.S. clinicians is an urgent priority within the health care community, and leaders around the field continue to collaborate on this effort since the conclusion of the 25x5 Symposium, held over six weeks in early 2021 to set the foundation for those efforts.  The 25x5 Symposium was developed to establish strategies and approaches to reduce clinician documentation burden on U.S. clinicians by 75% by 2025. 

The Vanderbilt Department of Biomedical Informatics is accepting applications for our PhD and MS programs until January 15, 2022. 

Ten leaders from across the enterprise in clinical care, research, education and administration have been named as holders of endowed directorships.

The Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center, a world-leading group of researchers and practitioners studying how to make EHRs work better, with a particular focus on innovative clinical decision support systems, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, has recently initiated a Clinical Informatics Core.

The Department of Biomedical Informatics is hiring an Assistant for our new incoming Chair, Peter Embí, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, who will assume his new position on January 1, 2022. 

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the November 2021 issue 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. 

Randolph Miller, MD, Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, accepted the 2021 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence at the 2021 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium in San Diego.  Watch the video below in case you missed the award ceremony!

In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) featuring Jessica Ancker, PhD, MPH, MS, Vice Chair for Educational Affairs in DBMI, and other collaborators discussed launching the Women in AMIA Leadership Program. 

Bennett Landman, PhD, Chair of the Department and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a $2.6 million NIH grant to improve the understanding of structural changes in the brains of people who have Alzheimer’s Disease. The goal is to identify opportunities for early intervention by developing more effective interventional strategies. Dr. Landman leads the four-year project.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Tennessee Department of Health (TDOH) have developed 30-day predictive models for fatal and non-fatal opioid-related overdose among patients receiving opioid prescriptions in the state. The team applied machine learning techniques to statewide data sources that included details on 2,574 fatal and 8,455 non-fatal opioid-related overdoses occurring within 30 days of an opioid prescription. In all, the data involved just over 3 million patients and more than 71 million prescriptions for controlled substances.