Paul Govern

January 14, 2016

Program helps faculty researchers dealing with personal challenges

Because researchers early in their careers have fewer resources at their disposal than their more established colleagues, their projects are all the more vulnerable to disruption when they are called away to attend to the health care needs of a child, spouse, partner or parent, or when they themselves become ill or face a complicated pregnancy.

By Paul Govern
January 7, 2016

VUMC’s Jackson elected fellow of ACMI

Gretchen Purcell Jackson, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of Pediatric Surgery, Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, is one of 13 fellows recently elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).

By Paul Govern
December 18, 2015

Vendor for VUMC clinical systems upgrade named

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has announced an agreement with Epic Systems Corp., a privately owned health care software company based in Verona, Wisconsin, to provide key clinical, administrative and billing software to the Medical Center.

By Paul Govern
December 17, 2015

New in-house software development group set to assist VUMC teams

Vanderbilt teams in the market for specialized software have a new in-house information technology group to call upon.

By Paul Govern
December 17, 2015

Flu vaccination compliance at VUMC rises dramatically

As of Dec. 1, employee compliance with the influenza vaccination policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has reached 99.9 percent, up from 80 percent on Dec.1, 2014

By Paul Govern
December 13, 2015

Personalized medicine is topic of new Vanderbilt massive open online course

Enrollment has opened for Case Studies in Personalized Medicine, Vanderbilt’s latest free massive open online course, or MOOC. The six-week course starts Jan. 15.

By Paul Govern
December 10, 2015

Vanderbilt, Ono Pharmaceutical sign drug discovery agreement

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Ono Pharmaceutical Group, an international company based in Japan, have signed a drug discovery agreement.
By Paul Govern
December 10, 2015

Health IT key to rapid response after recall of epinephrine device

At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a recent urgent drug recall of a specific epinephrine auto-injection device elicited a quick communications strategy to protect affected patients seen by Vanderbilt Medical Group providers.
By Paul Govern
November 19, 2015

Harris honored by American Medical Informatics Association

Paul Harris, Ph.D., MS, professor of Biomedical Informatics and Engineering, has received the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
By Paul Govern
November 19, 2015

Awards honor commitment to service excellence

The most recent Credo Award and Five Pillar Leader Award winners were announced at the Nov. 11 Clinical Enterprise Leadership Assembly at Langford Auditorium, along with the Team Award, a new honor given out for the first time.
By Paul Govern
November 13, 2015

Computer extracts cancer stage

Vanderbilt investigators developed a computerized natural language processing algorithm to extract cancer stages from electronic medical records.
By Paul Govern
November 3, 2015

VUMC receives NIH grant to develop artificial kidney

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a four-year, $6 million grant to investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) to develop an implantable artificial kidney.
By Paul Govern