electronic health records (EHRs)

January 10, 2024

Stanford, Essentia Health join VUMC-based clinical research network

The STAR Clinical Research Network, based at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has added two new partners — Essentia Health, a Minnesota-based rural health care system, and Stanford University School of Medicine, one of the country’s leading academic medical centers.

By Bill Snyder
January 2, 2024

Team uses COVID-19 to test automated acute disease profiling

An automated solution for creating phenotyping algorithms, PheNorm, worked well to identify symptomatic COVID-19 cases in electronic health records, suggesting that automation could speed high-throughput phenotyping of acute disease.

By Paul Govern
November 17, 2023

Study validates use of VUMC suicide risk model in Navy primary care

A Vanderbilt study found that automated suicide risk prediction models operating on electronic health records could help clinical teams efficiently identify patients for face-to-face suicide risk screening and prevention.

By Paul Govern
October 20, 2023

Bryan Shepherd’s research to validate EHR data receives MERIT Award from the NIH

Vanderbilt’s Bryan Shepherd, PhDhas received a MERIT Award, or Method to Extend Research in Time Award, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

By Paul Govern
The study team from VUMC included, from left, Xinmeng Zhang, You Chen, PhD, Bradley Malin, PhD, and Chao Yan, PhD. On the computers are Northwestern Medicine colleagues Abel Kho, MD, and Yuyang Yang. (photo by Donn Jones)
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.

By Paul Govern
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.

By Paul Govern
August 10, 2023

Messaging changes benefit both providers and patients

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has just rolled out changes to streamline and better manage messaging between patients and their care providers.
By Jill Clendening
July 31, 2023

VUMC clinicians help shape popular health care software

Twelve Vanderbilt faculty members from are among 627 clinicians currently serving two-year terms on 55 specialty steering boards constituted by Epic Systems Corp.
By Paul Govern
July 25, 2023

Vanderbilt mourns loss of pediatric informatician Stuart Weinberg

Stuart T. Weinberg, MD, an innovator and advocate in the field of pediatric informatics with expertise in clinical reminders, web services, personal health records, immunization registries and clinical decision support at the provider, institutional and national levels, died on July 18 in Franklin, Tennessee.
By Mia Garchitorena-Scancarelli
July 14, 2023

Study uses statistical and population-based methods to understand comorbidities of developmental language disorder

A recent Vanderbilt study is one of the first to use statistical and population-based methods to understand comorbidities associated with developmental language disorder at a population level.
By Danny Bonvissuto
June 22, 2023

Mosaicism and genetic disease

Genetic mosaicism — when the body’s cells do not all have the same genetic makeup — could generate variants previously thought to be spontaneous in genetic disease, and detecting parental mosaicism could clarify recurrence risk for future children.
By Leigh MacMillan
April 10, 2023

The problem with the problem list

Algorithms to infer missing problems and suggest that they be added to electronic health records improved problem list completeness, with benefits for clinical care, patient comprehension of health conditions and population health.
By Paul Govern
March 23, 2023

Reminders for clinicians improve prescribing for high cholesterol

A Vanderbilt study found that automated targeted reminders for clinicians helped increase prescribing of high intensity statins for patients with various atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease diagnoses, including coronary or peripheral artery disease and ischemic stroke.
By Paul Govern
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