Tech & Health

November 8, 2012

Study seeks new ways to help teens manage type 1 diabetes

Shelagh Mulvaney, Ph.D., assistant professor of Nursing, leads a national team of researchers, engineers and designers that recently landed a $1.8 million federal grant to identify new ways to teach critical problem-solving skills to teenagers with type 1 diabetes using an Internet and mobile phone-based system.

By VUMC News and Communications
Campus aerials. (John Russell/Vanderbilt University)
October 17, 2012

Beauchamp, Vermund elected to Institute of Medicine

R. Daniel Beauchamp, M.D., chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences, and Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the organization announced this week.

By Bill Snyder
August 24, 2012

Tool helps plumb electronic records

A tool developed for one institution’s electronic health records can work at other institutions, potentially facilitating the use of these records in research studies.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 14, 2012

Flu Tool guides patient decision-making

Studies of Flu Tool, a computer application that guides health care decision-making, suggests that patients are willing to use these types of resources.

By Leigh MacMillan
July 19, 2012

ROUNDS: A message from the Vice Chancellor

As we launched into a new academic year on July 1, I took some time to consider the road we have traveled together in the last 12 months. By any measure, it was remarkable.

By VUMC News and Communications
Clinical and translational research at Vanderbilt will be funded over the next five years, thanks to a $46 million renewal grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. (Mary Donaldson/Vanderbilt)
July 12, 2012

Vanderbilt’s CTSA lands $46 million renewal

Vanderbilt University’s largest single government research grant, its Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), has been renewed for another five years for $46 million.

By Bill Snyder
December 22, 2011

Johnson named VUMC Biomedical Informatics chair

By John Howser
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