electronic health records (EHRs) Archive — Page 3 of 12
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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. -
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 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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.