FORBES: "An Exciting, Surprisingly Imaginative, Techy Vision Of Telemedicine’s Future," featuring Yaa Kumah-Crystal
Avatars, virtual waiting rooms, virtual scribes, in-home testing devices, "syndromatic" facial analysis using AI and machine learning, screen-sharing, and sentiment analysis...There are many exciting innovation possibilities on the horizon that will make telemedicine even more productive, informative, helpful and fun and personable, than current, in-person doctor visits.
Faculty Position Opportunity – Apply Now!
Paul Harris, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI, Director of the VUMC Office of Research Informatics & Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Biomedical Engineering, is seeking a non-tenured faculty member with expertise in clinical and translational research, digital health, predictive modeling and machine learning.
REDCap’s FHIR-Based Data Interoperability Features, Story Featuring Paul Harris
"I want to change the world, not just at Vanderbilt."
3 DBMI Faculty Named to Hold VUMC Endowed Directorships
Eight leaders from across Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have been named as holders of endowed directorships - three of whom are faculty members in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Congratulations to Daniel Fabbri, PhD; Cindy Gadd, PhD, MBA, MS, FACMI; and Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI!
Yaa Kumah-Crystal Presenting on "Efforts to Reduce Clinician Burden" at 2021ONC Annual Meeting, 3/29/21
Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Pediatric Endocrinology, will be joining a group of panelists to discuss "Efforts to Reduce Clinician Burden: Success, Partial Success, or a Future Not Yet Realized" at the 2021 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Informatics Technology (ONC) Annual Meeting. The 2021 ONC meeting will take place on Monday, March 29, 2021.
REU Summer Intern Bryson Chavis Co-Authors Paper on User-Centered Design & Antimicrobial Stewardship in Pediatric Acute Care Settings
Bryson Chavis, a 2019 summer intern in Vanderbilt's Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, his DBMI mentors Mike Ward and Shilo Anders, and study co-authors published an article in the Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) Journal, titled "User-Centered Design
JAMIA: Clinical Data Sharing Improves Quality Measurement & Patient Safety
Accurate and robust quality measurement is critical to the future of value-based care. Having incomplete information when calculating quality measures can cause inaccuracies in reported patient outcomes.
JAMIA: DDIWAS: High-Throughput Electronic Health Record-Based Screening of Drug-Drug Interactions
Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Vanderbilt's School of Medicine, and the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine developed and evaluated Drug-Drug Interaction Wide Association Study (DDIWAS). This novel method detects potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs) by leveraging data from the electronic health record (EHR) allergy list.
"Next Steps in Health Care Transformation: The Moral Determinants of Health" Discovery Lecture, 4/15/21
The Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC) is sponsoring an upcoming Discovery Lecture, "Next Steps in Health Care Transformation: The Moral Determinants of Health," on April 15, 2021 at 4:00 pm CT via Zoom. The speaker, Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), will be speaking about a variety of topics related to the future of health care.
ACI: Extracting Medical Information from Paper COVID-19 Assessment Forms
Members of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and Medicine and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine published a study that examined the validity of optical mark recognition, a novel user interface, and crowdsourced data validation to rapidly digitize and extract data from paper COVID-19 assessment forms at a large medical center.