medical informatics

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Vanderbilt’s Ken Holroyd, M.D., MBA, assistant vice chancellor for Research, recently served on a panel discussing the Global Action Platform/Cumberland Center’s 2014 Global Action Report at the Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C.

VUMC’s health IT efforts named among nation’s best

For the tenth year in a row, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been named one of the nation’s “most wired” hospitals by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.

Patel named chief medical informatics officer

Neal Patel, M.D., MPH, has been named chief medical informatics officer for the Vanderbilt University Health System. Patel, professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, has served as the inpatient chief medical information officer since 2006.