Department of Biomedical Informatics
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May 3, 2018
Gene study spots clues to heart risk for statin patients
A Vanderbilt-led research team has discovered genetic variations that increase the risk of heart attack even when patients are receiving a statin drug like Lipitor or Crestor to lower their blood cholesterol. -
April 5, 2018
Health information technology expert Tang set for Discovery Lecture
Paul Tang, an expert in health information technology, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, April 12. -
March 29, 2018
Study finds broken circadian clock in human tumors
Human tumors appear to have a broken circadian clock, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center report in the journal PeerJ. -
March 15, 2018
Study spots undiagnosed genetic diseases in EHR
Patients diagnosed with heart failure, stroke, infertility and kidney failure could actually be suffering from rare and undiagnosed genetic diseases. -
January 25, 2018
Personalized drug prescribing program expands, upgrades
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has expanded and relaunched genetic testing to predict patient responses to drugs. -
January 18, 2018
Team to develop suicide risk model for military
Researchers at Vanderbilt University and Florida State University have received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Military Suicide Research Consortium to develop and evaluate tools to help U.S. Navy primary care teams detect and manage suicide risk. -
January 4, 2018
Project seeks to help people interact with medical records
Apple has Siri, Google has Google Assistant, Microsoft has Cortana. A team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is creating voice-controlled virtual assistant software to help people interact with electronic health records (EHR).