Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center

Sara Horst, MD, MPH

Horst, Patterson receive Physician Builder Awards

Sara Horst, MD, MPH, associate professor of Medicine, and Barron Patterson, MD, associate professor of Pediatrics, have received 2022 Physician Builder Awards.

An initiative at VUMC is helping to reduce automated alerts that are often triggered in the electronic health record.

VUMC Clickbusters program helps reduce EHR alerts

Vanderbilt’s Clickbusters program is helping to stem alert fatigue associated with the Medical Center’s clinical IT system.

Award recognizes hands-on contributions to health IT at VUMC

Chetan Aher, MD, assistant professor of Surgery, and Wael Alrifai, MD, assistant professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, are the inaugural winners of the Physician Builder Award, sponsored by the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC). They received trophies made from Lego building blocks and gift certificates.

Adam Wright, PhD, directs the new Clickbusters program to reduce alert fatigue in VUMC’s electronic health records system.

Clickbusters program takes on EHR alert fatigue

On April 1, the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC), in coordination with Health IT, launched a grassroots program called Clickbusters to stem alert fatigue at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.