Reporter July 10 2015 Archive
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July 9, 2015
Harvey named senior VP of Revenue Cycle Services
Gayla Harvey has been named senior vice president of Revenue Cycle Services and Payer Strategy for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. -
July 9, 2015
Move to new ICD-10 medical coding system progressing
A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center project managers has been working in recent months to train staff and transition clinics to a new medical coding and reporting system set to go into effect later this year. -
July 9, 2015
Arteaga, AACR push for cancer research funding
Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D., director of the Center for Cancer Targeted Therapies and director of the Breast Cancer Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), recently joined other cancer research leaders in a meeting with members of Congress to discuss precision medicine in cancer and the need for continued federal support for cancer research. -
July 9, 2015
Guengerich named interim editor of noted journal JBC
Vanderbilt University’s F. Peter (Fred) Guengerich, Ph.D., has been named interim editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC). -
July 9, 2015
Update from Kevin Johnson about Clinical Systems 2.0
CS 2.0 started with McKesson announcing that the Horizon suite of software used at VUMC would no longer be supported in 2018. We are using this announcement as a motivator to evaluate all our systems and plan for what our patients, our staff and our faculty need in the future. -
July 9, 2015
Improving patients’ quality of life drives Lind’s clinical care
As a gastroenterologist, Christopher Lind, M.D., says he is often the “butt” of jokes, but few people truly appreciate the role the gut plays in their happiness. -
July 9, 2015
Study could lead to vaccine for mosquito-borne dengue virus
Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the National University of Singapore have determined the structure of a human monoclonal antibody which, in an animal model, strongly neutralizes a type of the potentially lethal dengue virus.