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The drug naloxone can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose. In 2016 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that clinicians prescribing opioids for chronic pain consider coprescribing naloxone in patients with higher opioid dosages, a history of substance use disorder or overdose, or a concurrent benzodiazepine prescription. 

Bradley Malin, PhD, Accenture  Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received the Lasting Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) annual Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY). The award was presented April 25 at CODASPY, held this year in Hanover, Maryland.

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Assistant Professor Alvin Jeffery is one of 12 nurse scientists accepted into the third cohort of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators.

When it comes to health care for adolescents, patient autonomy and parental responsibility are at times forced into opposition, and when adolescent patients in the U.S. seek care for sensitive issues — sexually transmitted infections, mental health problems, drug use, contraception, etc. — the health care team’s ability to render treatment without involving a parent will depend on which jurisdiction they’re in.

Two Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty are among a group of 92 fellows who were inducted into the 2022 Class of Fellows of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). The honorary program of AMIA members recognizes professional achievements in the application of information science to serve clinical teams and biomedical research. The fellows will be inducted at the AMIA 2022 Clinical Informatics Conference in Houston in May 2022. The two new fellows of AMIA from VUMC are:

The Journal of Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) is will be publishing a Special Issue on "Adolescent Privacy and the Electronic Health Record". Guest editors include DBMI's Trent Rosenbloom and Bryan Steitz and Weill Cornell Medicine's Marianne Sharko.  For more information, see below and check the ACI Special Issue site here.

The growing availability of multi-scale biomedical data sources that can be used to enable research and improve healthcare delivery has brought about what can be described as a healthcare “data age.” This new era is defined by the explosive growth in bio-molecular, clinical, and population-level data that can be readily accessed by researchers, clinicians, and decis

Scott Nelson, Allison McCoy, Qingxia “Cindy” Chen, Adam Wright et al published a study in Anesthesia & Analgesia that found that a clinical decision support (CDS) alert significantly increased the rate of naloxone co-prescribing for patients at risk of an opioid overdose.  Read more here.

In March, the All of Us Research Program released an initial large batch of genomic data on its cloud-based research platform, the Researcher Workbench, including whole genome sequences of 98,600 research participants and genotype data from 165,200 participants.

Sarah Bland, MPH, MBA, Senior Project Manager in the Center for Precision Medicine, spoke about LGBTQ+ data in the electronic health record on the podcast, "Informatics in the Round." The podcast is hosted and created by Kevin Johnson, former DBMI Chair.