September 10, 2015

Grants spur effort to add genetic data to EMR

Vanderbilt University researchers have received two major federal grants — totaling $7.6 million over four years — to support groundbreaking research aimed at making genetic information a routine part of patients’ electronic medical records.

By Bill Snyder

January 29, 2015

Consent process for BioVU participation updated

As of last week, Vanderbilt has updated the process used to facilitate patient participation in BioVU, the Medical Center’s DNA repository.

By Paul Govern

December 5, 2013

First-ever study uses EMRs to spot new disease associations

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers and co-authors from four other U.S. institutions from the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network are repurposing genetic data and electronic medical records to perform the first large-scale phenome-wide association study (PheWAS), released today in Nature Biotechnology.

By Craig Boerner

January 5, 2012

Study applies random genotype sets to new disease

By Paul Govern