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Michael Matheny on Real World Evidence and Medical Devices

February 23, 2018

(From Regulatory Focus, February 16, 2018) Experts See Promise, Risk in Relying on Real World Evidence for Medical Devices by Michael Mezher

Bradley Malin on Blockchain and Genomics

February 23, 2018

(From Wired Magazine, February 21, 2018) Solve Genomics With The Blockchain? By Adam Rodgers, Wired Magazine SCIENTISTS LUST AFTER genomes like the wolf from a Tex Avery cartoon, heart pounding in throat, tongue lolling, fist pounding on the table, submarine-dive-ahOOOgah!-alarm sounding—all out of desire for the hot, hot data curled coaxingly inside every one of your cells.

Newsweek Article on Colin Walsh's Research in Predicting Suicide Risk

February 28, 2017

(From Newsweek, February 27, 2017) Machine-Learning Algorithms Can Predict Suicide Risk More Readily than Clinicians by Matthew Hutson

Kevin Johnson on Making Precision Medicine Patient Friendly

December 21, 2016

(From MedCity News, December 12, 2016) How to Make Precision Medicine More Patient-Friendly by Neil Versel Dr. Kevin Johnson, chief informatics officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has a theory about how to explain precision medicine to laypeople.

Jeremy Warner on Precision Cancer Medicine Apps

December 5, 2016

(from GenomeWeb, November 9, 2016) Vanderbilt's Precision Cancer Medicine App Brings Genomic Data to Point of Care by Uduak Grace Thomas NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Enabling precision medicine at the point of care requires ready access to genomic information within the clinical workflow as well as tools to help clinicians make sense of the information presented to them.

WebMD Article on Josh Peterson and the Challenges of E-Prescribing

December 3, 2016

(from WebMD, November 29, 2016) Hospital E-Prescribing: Trouble for Older Adults? by Kathleen Doheny TUESDAY, Nov. 29, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Preprogrammed doses of medications that can raise the risk of falls are often set too high for older hospital patients, new research shows.

Jeremy Warner's Research on Precision Medicine Apps Featured

December 3, 2016

(from Healthcare Informatics, October 26, 2016 ) Health systems focus on data integration, decision support, clinical work flow by David Raths

Josh Denny is PI of the VUMC's Largest Research Grant ... Ever

November 8, 2016

(From this article) Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has been chosen by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to be the Data and Research Support Center for the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, a landmark study of genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors affecting the health of a million or more people, federal officials have announced.

Mia Levy Elected to American College of Medical Informatics

November 7, 2016

Mia Levy, M.D., Ph.D., the Ingram Assistant Professor of Cancer Research and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics was one of 23 fellows recently elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). The new fellows will be inducted in November in Chicago, during the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. The ACMI is an honorary college of elected fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics and who have met rigorous scholarly scrutiny by their peers.

Bradley Malin Leads $4M NIH Center Grant in Genetics and Data Ethics

May 18, 2016

(from this press release) Researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have received a four-year, $4-million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a new center for the study of privacy concerns associated with the use of genomic information, the NIH announced today, May 17.

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