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Center for Knowledge Management Launches Systematic Review Instructional Video Series

garchima — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:41:21 +0000

Center for Knowledge Management Launches Systematic Review Instructional Video Series garchima Mon, 11/27/2023 - 14:41 RSS:

Need to know more about how to conduct a systematic review? Need to refresh your knowledge about a particularly step in the systematic review process? The VUMC Center for Knowledge Management (CKM) is excited to announce the launch of an open access instructional video series available through the CKM Scholarly Publishing Information Hub (SPI-Hub^TM). The training covers all aspects of systematic reviews, including:

planning to conduct a systematic review
distinguishing among review types (e.g., scoping, umbrella, realist)
steps in the systematic review process
software management tools (e.g., Rayyan, ASReview, Covidence)
registering a systematic review protocol (e.g., PROSPERO, OSFRegisteries)
instruments for quality assessment (e.g., AMSTAR, ROBIS)

Find the self-paced educational modules and quizzes to check your understanding within SPI-Hub^TM. For more information, please contact the CKM.

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Faculty Position Openings for 2024—Apply Today!

garchima — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:44:45 +0000

Faculty Position Openings for 2024—Apply Today! garchima Fri, 11/10/2023 - 10:44 RSS:

FACULTY POSITION OPENINGS

The Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at VUMC is seeking tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty candidates with expertise in the field of biomedical informatics. The Department is seeking and will consider candidates at all ranks.

If interested in joining our faculty and/or learning more about our department, APPLY HERE!

The successful candidate will have a track record or promise of impactful work across the broad domains within the field of Biomedical Informatics, especially in alignment with VUMC's missions of discovery, clinical service, education, and leadership. VUMC's core mission of personalizing the patient experience through its caring spirit and distinctive capabilities relies heavily on the work DBMI leads.

While we will consider candidates working across the range of biomedical informatics sub-domains, the Department is particularly interested in candidates who can advance its strategic areas, including:

Clinical informatics
Research informatics
Public and Population Health informatics
Translational Bioinformatics
Precision Medicine
AI and Data Science
Digital and Consumer Health
Informatics for Ethical and Equitable Health

Qualifications
The successful applicant should have the background and experience working in the field of biomedical informatics. Applicants must possess any of:

PhD in biomedical informatics, computational biology, health data science or a closely related field
Advanced clinical training (MD, PharmD, or other clinical degree) and training or certification in biomedical informatics
Candidates with other qualifications are welcome to inquire

Instructions
Applications for this position should submit a cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information of a minimum of three references. The cover letter should describe the applicant's relevant qualifications and experience, as well as brief statements of research and teaching interests.

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Vanderbilt & Duke Awarded Moore Foundation Grant to Improve Oversight of AI Tech in Health Care Systems

garchima — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:08:16 +0000

Vanderbilt & Duke Awarded Moore Foundation Grant to Improve Oversight of AI Tech in Health Care Systems garchima Thu, 11/09/2023 - 10:08 RSS:

Mia Garchitorena

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Duke University School of Medicine have been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the project “Measuring Artificial Intelligence (AI) Maturity in Healthcare Organizations.”

Working with the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) and the University of Iowa, a team of experts will leverage the grant to develop a maturity model framework. The project leads are Peter Embí, MD, MS, and Laurie Novak, PhD, MHSA, from VUMC and Michael Pencina, PhD, and Nicoleta Economou, PhD, from Duke.

This framework will outline the essential capabilities that health systems must establish to ensure they are well prepared for the trustworthy utilization of AI models.

“The promise of AI for improving health and health care is great, but there is currently a wide gap between promise and reality,” said Embí, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at VUMC.

“This work will produce new tools and capabilities that our health system needs to ensure that we select, deploy and monitor health AI to make health care more safe, effective, ethical and equitable for all,” he added.

“Our team at the Vanderbilt Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) has a long tradition of scholarship on technology and organizations, starting with Dr. Nancy Lorenzi, who paved the way for an informatics focus on workflow and management. We’re very excited to work with our partners at Duke, the University of Iowa, the Coalition for Health AI and the Moore Foundation to build an empirically supported maturity model for healthcare AI,” said Novak, associate professor in DBMI and director of Vanderbilt’s Center of Excellence in Applied AI.

DBMI Digest AMIA 2023 Edition—Now Available!

garchima — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:08:04 +0000

DBMI Digest AMIA 2023 Edition—Now Available! garchima Tue, 11/07/2023 - 13:08 RSS:

Just like most other years, Vanderbilt’s conference presence is robust this year! Check out this DBMI Digest to learn more about what to expect at AMIA 2023 and what exciting events are taking place at AMIA!

See the DBMI Digest AMIA 2023 here (and below): https://t.e2ma.net/message/1a74sj/12cgjjq
See a full list of DBMI AMIA presentations, posters and noteworthy events HERE:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qbxOEKF9hzuXUL4RsY0BVNaF8D5wOxytT_V3yFboniY/edit#gid=1581630302

This DBMI Digest AMIA 2023 Edition includes messages from DBMI Education’s Jessica Ancker & Kim Unertl; notifications about Allison McCoy & Ellen Clayton being inducted into the 2023 Class of ACMI Fellows, Trent Rosenbloom receiving a Leadership Award for his work with 25x5, Uday Suresh being selected as a finalist for the Student Paper Competition; and more!

For VETERANS DAY (Nov. 11), we shared a list of Veterans Day events taking place at VUMC as well as a profile of Derek Baughman, MSACI Fellow who joined in Fall 2023.

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Vanderbilt’s Ellen Clayton & Allison McCoy Elected Fellows of ACMI

garchima — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 20:59:06 +0000

Vanderbilt’s Ellen Clayton & Allison McCoy Elected Fellows of ACMI garchima Tue, 10/17/2023 - 15:59 RSS:

Mia Garchitorena

Vanderbilt’s Ellen Clayton, MD, JD, and Allison McCoy, PhD, have been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) class of 2023. The 23 new fellows will be inducted into the ACMI at the 2023 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, held in New Orleans.

NEW STUDY: "Differences in Health Professionals’ Engagement With Electronic Health Records Based on Inpatient Race and Ethnicity"

garchima — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 02:16:37 +0000

NEW STUDY: "Differences in Health Professionals’ Engagement With Electronic Health Records Based on Inpatient Race and Ethnicity" garchima Tue, 10/10/2023 - 21:16 RSS:

Paul Govern

At two large academic medical centers a review of electronic health record (EHR) 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.

The finding, reported Oct. 9 in JAMA Network Open by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, measures EHR engagement in terms of health care team interactions per hour with the EHR during the adult inpatient stay, reflecting user activities such as reviewing test results, updating clinical notes, and maintaining active medications.

“Our premise in undertaking this analysis is that EHR engagement, as reflected in access logs, is an overlooked but important measure of clinical effort and attention,” said the report’s lead author, Chao Yan, PhD, a research fellow in Biomedical Informatics at VUMC. “Our findings, as well as the analysis framework itself, provide an opportunity to detect potentially unknown disparities in health care.”

From VUMC, the report’s co-first author is PhD student Xinmeng Zhang and the senior authors are You Chen, PhD, assistant professor Biomedical Informatics, and Bradley Malin, PhD, Accenture professor of Biomedical Informatics. Others on the study from VUMC include Kaidi Kang, MS, Martin Were, MD, MS, Peter Embí, MD, MS, and Mayur Patel, MD, MPH. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grants LM012854, HG012510, AG058639, GM120484).

Faculty Position Opening in DBMI—Apply Today!

garchima — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:45:11 +0000

Faculty Position Opening in DBMI—Apply Today! garchima Mon, 10/02/2023 - 13:45 RSS:

Faculty Position Opening—DBMI

Location:
Full-Time

Description:
The Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at VUMC is seeking a tenure-track faculty member with expertise in AI and machine learning, clinical research informatics and data privacy with applications to biomedical research infrastructure.

Qualifications:

The successful applicant should have a computational background and experience working in the field of informatics. There will be opportunities to pursue independent funding and contribute to a new grant submissions, as well as contribute to projects that are managed by the various centers with strong ties to the department, Center for Health Data Science (HEADS), the Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC), Center for Precision Health (CPM) and the Center for Improving the Public's Health Through Informatics (CIPHI).

Application Instructions:
Applicants for this position should submit a cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information of a minimum of three references. The cover letter should describe the applicant's relevant qualifications and experience, as well as brief statements of research and teaching interests.

If you have questions, please reach out to Brad Malin, PhD, Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Vice Chair for Research in DBMI, at b.malin@vumc.org.

Click here to apply!

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ListenDNA Podcast Season 4 Launches TODAY—EP 1 ft. Peter Embi

garchima — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:10:32 +0000

ListenDNA Podcast Season 4 Launches TODAY—EP 1 ft. Peter Embi garchima Mon, 10/02/2023 - 10:10 RSS:

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's (VUMC) award-winning original podcast series, "Vanderbilt Health Discoveries in Action" (DNA), returns for Season 4 with conversations about how the future of tech, economic and cultural elements are shaping medicine, work and well-being.

Episode 1 features Peter Embi, MD, MS, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and SVP for Research & Innovation at VUMC, joined VUMC CEO Jeff Balser, Muktar Aliyu of the Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health, and Nancy Cox of VUMC Genetics to discuss how ideas stemming from the 90s sparked a new global alliance that will help write the future of medicine. Listen here!

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Join InformaticCon 2023—September 27, 2023 at VUSN!

garchima — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:55:22 +0000

Join InformaticCon 2023—September 27, 2023 at VUSN! garchima Mon, 09/25/2023 - 10:55 RSS:

Please join us for VCLIC's second annual InformaticCon, this year presented in partnership with VUSN. This special, three-hour event will include lunch, a sampling of short, dynamic talks, a panel, and a poster session to showcase clinical informatics work going on across VUMC! It will take place on Wednesday, September 27th, 2023, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing. The registration and the poster session will take place in the Atrium, and the panel and lightning talks will be in Room 161. The Lightning Talk hour (12:00-1:00 pm) will take the place of the DBMI Grand Rounds seminar for this 9/27 week.

Agenda:

10:00-11:00 am Poster Session (Atrium)

11:00-11:45 am Panel on how to get involved in Clinical Informatics at Vanderbilt (Room 161)

11:45 am-12:00 pm lunch (pick up lunch in Atrium, feel free to eat in room 161)

12:00-1:00 pm Lightning Talks (room 161)

Streaming Link for Remote Attendees: https://vusn-mediasite.vanderbilt.edu/Mediasite/Play/c7dce91ef6be45f28ea0994559a1d8bf1d

All VUMC and VU faculty, staff, trainees, and students are welcome to participate and attend, and we hope to see you there on September 27th to kick off our academic year! Contact elise.russo@vumc.org if you have questions.

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Welcome to Fall Semester! Introducing our 2023 DBMI Students

garchima — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:35:19 +0000

Welcome to Fall Semester! Introducing our 2023 DBMI Students garchima Mon, 09/11/2023 - 10:35 RSS:

Mia Garchitorena

A Message from Jessica Ancker, Vice Chair for Educational Affairs:

This fall, we are delighted to welcome our new predoctoral, postdoctoral, and professional trainees. We are looking forward to the new energy brought by:

3 PhD students
1 former MS student starting a PhD
1 postdoctoral fellow starting an MS
1 staff member starting an MS
2 non-degree seeking postdocs on the T15 training grant
2 Vanderbilt Genomic Medicine fellows
6 MSACI students including 1 clinical informatics fellow

Also, we are welcoming a number of graduate students from other programs into our biomedical informatics classes. Students are coming to train with us from biostatistics, epidemiology, genetics, and other graduate programs. We welcome this opportunity to contribute to team science at Vanderbilt!

Seminars and Colloquium
The DBMI Seminar series has been renamed DBMI Grand Rounds. It will remain in the Wednesday 12:00 pm noon timeslot. Many speakers will be in-person on the 8th floor at 2525 West End Ave or in Light Hall. We will maintain the hybrid option for attendees who prefer to call in.

The DBMI Research Colloquium has moved to Mondays at 11:00 am. It will be held in Room 8110 of 2525 West End. Additional audience members will be able to participate using the Zoom link.

Workshop on K and Dissertation Awards
Our monthly Zoom workshop on developing grant proposals for K awards and dissertation awards resumes September 13. Grant writers may use these sessions to share their specific aims for group discussion and feedback. Any aspiring grant writers interested in learning more about the process should feel free to attend. Also, we are delighted to welcome any faculty member who has time to attend, to provide constructive grant feedback and help contribute to our trainees’ success. No preparation is needed – just show up and provide input. Please email Jessica Ancker for an invitation to the workshop and a sharing invitation for our departmental library of previous K and dissertation awards.

Thank you, and welcome to the 2023-2024 academic year!
— Jessica

Research & Educational Opportunities
At Vanderbilt, we have exciting research and educational opportunities in all the core domains of biomedical informatics, which include: Biomedical Data Science, Clinical Informatics, Translational Bioinformatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Consumer Health Informatics, People and Organizational Informatics, and Public Health Informatics. To learn more about faculty and courses in these domains, visit our DBMI Education site here!

If you have questions about any of Vanderbilt's educational programs in biomedical informatics, contact Rischelle Jenkins, Program Manager, at rischelle.jenkins@vanderbilt.edu.

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DBMI Faculty Join VUMC Healthcare AI Sessions Conference—9/20/23

garchima — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:11:41 +0000

DBMI Faculty Join VUMC Healthcare AI Sessions Conference—9/20/23 garchima Mon, 09/04/2023 - 11:11 RSS:

The Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is hosting its Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Sessions Conference (HAIS23) on Wednesday, September 20, 2023.

Speakers include primary and secondary faculty from the Department of Biomedical Informatics: Peter Embi & Laurie Novak / Jeffrey Carr of VUMC Radiology & Jules White of VU's School of Engineering.

Attend for FREE in-person! Register here: https://www.vumc.org/brockcenter/events

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Faculty Position Opening in VCLIC—Apply Today!

garchima — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:42:45 +0000

Faculty Position Opening in VCLIC—Apply Today! garchima Mon, 08/28/2023 - 15:42 RSS:

Position Details: The Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) are seeking a faculty member with expertise in clinical informatics.

This position is focused on leading the development and implementation of advanced EHR-centric applied clinical informatics research. Focus areas for VCLIC include clinical decision support, artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and using the EHR to improve quality and safety. VCLIC and DBMI provide an unparalleled opportunity to do hands-on clinical informatics research in a real clinical setting, with outstanding access to data and the ability to test interventions in the real world.

Applicants for this position should submit a cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information of a minimum of three references. The cover letter should describe the applicant's relevant qualifications and experience, as well as brief statements of research and teaching interests.

All application materials should be entered on the Faculty Recruitment Portal via this exclusive link: http://apply.interfolio.com/130656

More info here: https://www.vumc.org/vclic/jobs

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WATCH: On the Horizon Town Hall Series "VUMC Generative AI Update"

garchima — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:37:47 +0000

WATCH: On the Horizon Town Hall Series "VUMC Generative AI Update" garchima Tue, 08/01/2023 - 09:37 RSS:

VUMC Generative AI Updates

The second town hall in the On the Horizon series, “VUMC Generative AI Update” was hosted on July 26, 9-10am, by Dr. Peter Embí, MD, MS, Senior Vice President for Research & Innovation. This event provided the Vanderbilt Community with an overview of generative AI, what’s being made available to researchers in the areas of AI tools and capabilities (including Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s aiChat), and how these tools and capabilities can be accessed to accelerate research. Presenters include VUMC leaders in generative AI, information technology, biomedical informatics, and more.

Presentations by:
•   Melissa Basford, MBA
•   Peter Embí, MD, MS (DBMI)
•   Paul Harris, PhD (DBMI)
•   Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH, MS (DBMI)
•   Brad Malin, PhD (DBMI)
•   Peter Shave, MBA
•   Adam Wright, PhD (DBMI)

View the event recording below or on Youtube. Learn more about VUMC's policy on the use of Generative AI via VUMC Reporter.

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Vanderbilt Mourns Loss of Pediatric Informatician Stuart Weinberg

garchima — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:13:43 +0000

Vanderbilt Mourns Loss of Pediatric Informatician Stuart Weinberg garchima Tue, 07/25/2023 - 15:13 RSS:

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. He was 63.

Dr. Weinberg was passionate about finding and implementing solutions to barriers to the delivery of health care to children. As one of the preeminent pediatric informaticists in the nation, he led work on immunization tracking and registries. At the time of his retirement in January 2022, Dr. Weinberg was actively applying these efforts at Vanderbilt, across the state of Tennessee, and through a national organization seeking to improve the quality of immunization databases. One notable result of these efforts was the successful identification and resubmission of more than 8,000 vaccines from Vanderbilt, including hundreds of COVID-19 vaccine doses, which had been previously rejected due to various errors.

“Over the years, Dr. Weinberg made significant, innovative and sustained contributions to our department, to VUMC and to the fields of informatics and pediatrics. Stuart was a valued friend and colleague to so many of us, and he will be sorely missed,” said Peter Embi, MD, MS, professor and chair of Biomedical Informatics, professor of Medicine and Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at VUMC.

Introducing the CIPHI Annual Report, 2022-23

garchima — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:46:17 +0000

Introducing the CIPHI Annual Report, 2022-23 garchima Tue, 07/18/2023 - 15:46 RSS:

Introducing the 1st CIPHI Annual Report, 2022-23

A Message from Michael Matheny, Director of CIPHI

I'm very excited to share the release of our first CIPHI Annual Report, which showcases the outstanding work that the faculty, staff, and students in CIPHI have been involved in this last year. The report highlights a number of informatics initiatives focused around population health and medical product surveillance that our faculty has been involved in. This includes research in the use of EHR data within the FDA Sentinel's Innovation Center, work in natural language processing and applied AI/ML powered clinical workflow tools at the VA, and more.

I want to thank our CIPHI and DBMI members, the administrative staff, and all of our collaborators for their insight and expertise—making the success of the research within CIPHI possible.

To view the CIPHI Annual Report, 2022-23, click here!

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Peter Embí to Help Steer National AI Code of Conduct Initiative

garchima — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:45:51 +0000

Peter Embí to Help Steer National AI Code of Conduct Initiative garchima Fri, 06/30/2023 - 13:45 RSS:

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is launching a three-year initiative convening health, technology, research and bioethics leaders to produce a code of conduct for the development and use of artificial intelligence in health, medical care and health research.

Among members of the project’s 21-member steering committee is Peter Embí, MD, MS, professor and chair of Biomedical Informatics and Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

DBMI Digest June 2023 Issue—Now Available!

garchima — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:43:43 +0000

DBMI Digest June 2023 Issue—Now Available! garchima Fri, 06/30/2023 - 13:43 RSS:

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the June 2023 DBMI Digest here.

Each DBMI Digest features department & faculty announcements, awards & appointments, educational & HR updates, funding opportunities and more. Each issue also includes a profile of one of our faculty, staff, postdocs and students.

Interested in learning more about what goes on within DBMI? View our past DBMI Digests here. If you are a member of DBMI, please submit your professional and personal updates, as well as feedback for the newsletter, to dbmicomms@vumc.org.

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VUMC Statement on the Use of Generative AI

garchima — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:26:46 +0000

VUMC Statement on the Use of Generative AI garchima Tue, 06/27/2023 - 10:26 RSS:

The recent public release of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that are capable of creating new, realistic content from training data, like OpenAI’s latest multimodal large language model GPT-4, has generated a lot of excitement.

While still experimental, these tools have the potential to change the way we do many of our daily work tasks and might be able to improve clinical care, operational efficiency, and advance research. While enthusiasm for these tools is understandable, they also have limitations, and use of publicly available versions of these tools can pose risks to organizations like ours.

Please read this article in the VUMC Reporter for more detailed information.

The Department of Biomedical Informatics has created a new landing page with information about Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and capabilities at VUMC, and related information for the VUMC community. As these tools and capabilities change, this page will be updated, so check back often.

Visit https://www.vumc.org/dbmi/GenerativeAI

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Introducing VUMC's "On the Horizon" Town Hall Series ft. DBMI—6/22/23

garchima — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:29:06 +0000

Introducing VUMC's "On the Horizon" Town Hall Series ft. DBMI—6/22/23 garchima Thu, 06/15/2023 - 16:29 RSS:

On the Horizons Town Hall: "Advancing Clinical Data Assets and New Tools for Research Discovery"

Featuring DBMI's Peter Embi, Paul Harris & Travis Osterman

Date/Time: Thursday, June 22 from 10:00-11:00 am CT
Location: Microsoft Teams (live)

Click here to join the Town Hall!

This is the first town hall in the new On the Horizon series titled Advancing Clinical Data Assets and New Tools for Research Discovery which will provide a launching pad for highlighting upcoming tools, data driven discovery, among other topics for our research community. During this town hall we will be introducing the partnership with nference and new tools that will be available to the VUMC community. We will share more information on the town hall, a preview of Q&A questions, along with a demo of the nference clinical analytics platform prior to the event.

More info here.

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DBMI Digest May 2023 Issue—Now Available!

garchima — Wed, 31 May 2023 14:50:17 +0000

DBMI Digest May 2023 Issue—Now Available! garchima Wed, 05/31/2023 - 09:50 RSS:

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the May 2023 DBMI Digest here.

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