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Eight leaders from across Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have been named as holders of endowed directorships - three of whom are faculty members in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Congratulations to Daniel Fabbri, PhD; Cindy Gadd, PhD, MBA, MS, FACMI; and Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI! 

Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Pediatric Endocrinology, will be joining a group of panelists to discuss "Efforts to Reduce Clinician Burden: Success, Partial Success, or a Future Not Yet Realized" at the 2021 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Informatics Technology (ONC) Annual Meeting. The 2021 ONC meeting will take place on Monday, March 29, 2021. 

Bryson Chavis, a 2019 summer intern in Vanderbilt's Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, his DBMI mentors Mike Ward and Shilo Anders, and study co-authors published an article in the Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) Journal, titled "User-Centered Design

Accurate and robust quality measurement is critical to the future of value-based care. Having incomplete information when calculating quality measures can cause inaccuracies in reported patient outcomes. 

Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Vanderbilt's School of Medicine, and the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine developed and evaluated Drug-Drug Interaction Wide Association Study (DDIWAS). This novel method detects potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs) by leveraging data from the electronic health record (EHR) allergy list. 

Members of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and Medicine and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine published a study that examined the validity of optical mark recognition, a novel user interface, and crowdsourced data validation to rapidly digitize and extract data from paper COVID-19 assessment forms at a large medical center.

Members of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), Medicine, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences published a study that analyzed how well electronic health record-based suicide risk models perform in the clinical setting and if performance is generalizable. The study was published in JAMA on March 12, 2021. 

The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) is publishing a special edition in the fall of 2021 that will highlight best practices for Research Patient Data Registries (RPDR) discovered by CTSA funded hubs. The journal is seeking original research, brief communications, perspectives, case reports, and systematic review articles. Below are some proposed deadlines to be aware of:

Optimizing and simplifying the EHR flowsheet to structured response fields rather than a text input dialogue could help reduce clinician burnout and aid EHR documentation, according to a study published in JMIR Publications. DBMI's Brad Malin, Zhijun Yin, Yongtai Liu, Allison McCoy, and Patricia Sengstack co-authored the study. Read more in EHR Intelligence here.