Department of Biomedical Informatics

November 7, 2019

VUMC’s Osterman awarded Microsoft Investigator Fellowship

Travis Osterman, DO, MS, has been awarded a Microsoft Investigator Fellowship.

By VUMC News and Communications
November 4, 2019

How to fake a medical record

Simulated electronic health records could avoid patient privacy risks and help speed discovery.

By Paul Govern
October 17, 2019

Peterson, Roden honored for translational medicine efforts

Josh Peterson, MD, MPH, and Dan Roden, MD, are among 10 leaders in clinical pharmacology and translational medicine recognized this week by the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

By Bill Snyder
October 16, 2019

VUMC assumes new role in FDA safety monitoring

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is assuming an expanded role in U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) medical product safety monitoring.

By Paul Govern
October 7, 2019

AI maps routes to heart disease

Machine learning on unlabeled electronic health record data has shed light on the emergence of cardiovascular disease.

By Paul Govern
October 3, 2019

Lindsell appointed to HEAlth Data Science Center co-directorship

The HEAlth Data Science (HEADS) Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is undergoing a reorganization to further refine the center’s mission, and Christopher Lindsell, PhD, has been named a new co-director.

By Jill Clendening
October 2, 2019

Research team sorts out drug screen false positive results

Vanderbilt investigators have identified 13 previously unknown drug compounds that cause false positive screenings for amphetamines, buprenorphine (an opioid), cannabinoids and methadone.
By Paul Govern
September 25, 2019

Study to explore care coordination’s impact on patient outcomes

You Chen, PhD, has been awarded a four-year, $1.5 million research grant to study care coordination patterns and their influence on hospital length of stay and unplanned patient readmission.
By Paul Govern
August 15, 2019

REDCap data management tool reaches million user mark

Fifteen years after it was launched, REDCap, Vanderbilt University’s research data management tool, has reached 1 million users throughout the world.
By Bill Snyder
August 14, 2019

All of Us Research Program Takes Aim at Precision Population Health

Scarcely a year after its national launch, the “All of Us” research program, which aims to accelerate the prevention and treatment of disease, has enrolled more than 230,000 research participants — more than a fifth of its recruitment goal of 1 million people. All
By Bill Snyder
June 20, 2019

VUMC forms new Center for Improving the Public’s Health Using Informatics (CIPHI)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is forming a new Center for Improving the Public’s Health Using Informatics (CIPHI, pronounced “Sci Fi”) to be co-directed by Michael Matheny, MD, MS, MPH, and Melissa McPheeters, PhD, MPH.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 21, 2019

Skin diseases study uses crowdsourcing to gather data

In 1906, English statistician Francis Galton happened to visit a livestock fair where fairgoers were invited to guess the dressed weight of an ox scheduled for imminent slaughter. Some 800 attendees took part and afterwards Galton got hold of the contest data.
By Paul Govern
February 7, 2019

PheWAS Core helps researchers make sense of electronic health record data

Some biomedical researchers may be unsure about routine electronic health record (EHR) data and how useful it ultimately may prove for drawing meaningful, actionable associations that warrant changes to clinical practice and lead to improved clinical outcomes.
By Paul Govern
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