Department of Biomedical Informatics Archive — Page 22 of 25
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October 7, 2016
Rheumatoid subtypes explored by PheWAS
A computer-based method pioneered at Vanderbilt is being used to compare subtypes of rheumatoid arthritis. -
August 11, 2016
Mobile app for My Health at Vanderbilt expands access options
Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s secure online patient portal, My Health at Vanderbilt (MHAV), is now even more accessible to patients with the launch of a new mobile app. -
July 7, 2016
VUMC chosen for leadership role in NIH Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been chosen by the National Institutes of Health to be a leader in a landmark study of genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors affecting the health of a million or more people. The NIH will provide $71.6 million over five years to VUMC, making this the largest research grant the Medical Center has ever received from any source. -
July 7, 2016
VUMC chosen for leadership role in NIH Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has been chosen by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to be the Data and Research Support Center for the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, a landmark study of genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors affecting the health of a million or more people, federal officials have announced. -
July 5, 2016
Vanderbilt establishes innovation center to boost demographic representation in clinical trial enrollment
Many clinical trials are stopped prematurely because they fail to recruit enough study participants. Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a five-year, $14 million grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health to address this. -
July 5, 2016
New NIH-funded center to study inefficiencies in clinical trials
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute have received a major federal grant to study how multisite clinical trials of new drugs and therapies in children and adults can be conducted more rapidly and efficiently. -
June 2, 2016
‘Crowdsourcing’ project aims to refine data extraction from electronic health records
A research team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will develop a crowdsourcing solution for generating a wide range of labeled data sets from electronic health records (EHRs).