Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act provides patients with a greater choice of hospital facilities, Vanderbilt researchers have found.

Pathologist Carol Rauch, M.D., Ph.D., likes being prepared.

Small and seemingly inconsequential interactions with patients can sometimes stick in a caregiver’s memory.

With lawmakers in the nation’s capital having reached a political impasse over replacement of the Affordable Care Act, it’s unclear just where health care policy may be going. The challenges of dealing with this uncertainty were the subject of Monday’s panel discussion at Vanderbilt featuring state and hospital industry officials.

Vanderbilt investigators have developed hospital readmission models that may help prevent payment penalties to hospitals when patients are readmitted too soon after discharge.

The Master of Science in Applied Clinical Informatics program (MSACI) is now accepting applications for fall 2017.