Department of Biomedical Informatics
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October 10, 2023
Study tracks clinical team engagement with health records by patient race/ethnicity
A review of electronic health record user access logs found that EHRs of adult inpatients from minority racial and ethnic populations on average received lower engagement from health care teams than the records of white adult inpatients. -
October 5, 2023
Stenner and Webber lead collaborative team to win AMA Precision Education Innovation Grant
Shane Stenner, MD, MS, and Chase Webber, DO, and a collaborative team of experts at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center were recently named to receive the American Medical Association’s ChangeMedEd Innovation grant. -
September 26, 2023
Academics, entrepreneurs gather for first annual AI event
Artificial intelligence experts from industry and from Vanderbilt gathered on the VUMC campus recently for the first annual Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Sessions, or HAIS 23, sponsored by the Brock Family Center. -
September 21, 2023
World’s research data administrators descend on Seattle for REDCapCon 2023
Institutional research data administrators from around world got their REDCap on at REDCapCon 2023, held Sept. 10-13 in Seattle. -
August 31, 2023
New reference tool supports replication of DNA biobank studies
Vanderbilt researchers created a phenotype-genotype reference map to assess data quality in DNA biobanks. -
August 15, 2023
Algorithm scours health records for lung cancer risk
Vanderbilt researchers have developed a computer algorithm that scans electronic health records, or EHRs, to identify patients who meet criteria for lung cancer screening. -
August 9, 2023
VUMC receives $51 million in NIH grants to improve efficiency of conducting clinical trials across the US
Vanderbilt researchers have been awarded two five-year federal grants totaling $51 million to harness new and existing approaches for boosting recruitment and removing roadblocks to the efficiency of conducting clinical trials throughout the country.