Department of Biomedical Informatics
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November 4, 2021
Miller, Wright land top biomedical informatics awards
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October 20, 2021
VUMC’s Were, Sengstack, Stead honored by ACMI
Vanderbilt’s Martin Were, MD, MS, and Patricia Sengstack, DNP, RN-BC, have been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). William Stead, MD, has been named a Distinguished Fellows of ACMI. -
October 19, 2021
Artificial intelligence predicts opioid overdose in Tennessee
Researchers at Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Department of Health have developed 30-day predictive models for fatal and non-fatal opioid-related overdose among patients receiving opioid prescriptions in the state. -
September 30, 2021
AI predicts next-day delirium or coma in ICU patients
A team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center used machine learning to predict the likelihood of next-day brain function status changes in critical care patients. -
September 30, 2021
Study shows how a protein coding gene confers breast cancer susceptibility during DNA transcription
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center research is providing new insights into how genetic variants convey breast cancer susceptibility by altering the transcription factor proteins that convert DNA strands into RNA. -
September 16, 2021
Indiana University’s Embí named chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics
Peter Embí, MD, MS, President and Chief Executive Officer for the Regenstrief Institute Inc., and professor of Medicine and Biostatistics & Health Data Science at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has been named as the new chair of Vanderbilt's Department of Biomedical Informatics. -
September 2, 2021
Study shows gene-drug interactions are common
When a drug or combination of drugs causes different responses in different people, genetic variation is often at play. Pharmacogenomics, through discovery of genetic risk and use of clinical genotyping, aims to reduce trial-and-error approaches to drug prescribing.