Department of Biomedical Informatics

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected Joshua Denny, MD, MS, vice president of Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to be the chief executive officer of the federal All of Us Research Program.

VUMC and the Nashville Fire Department are testing a system to automatically generate patient acuity scores and abbreviated care records of in-transit patient procedures based on computer interpretations of signals from sensors and video cameras.

Obesity and two post-operative complications linked with it have associated genetic variants in common, suggesting that obesity may be the culprit.

Travis Osterman, DO, MS, has been awarded a Microsoft Investigator Fellowship.

Simulated electronic health records could avoid patient privacy risks and help speed discovery.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is assuming an expanded role in U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) medical product safety monitoring.

Machine learning on unlabeled electronic health record data has shed light on the emergence of cardiovascular disease.