To assist health care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), Martin Were, MD, MS, associate professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, devised a smartphone application called mUzima. Uzima is Swahili for life and mUzima’s slogan is “mobile for life.”

With sonograms, genetic tests and other diagnostic technology standing by to examine babies in utero, developmental abnormalities are often detected early in the gestation process. But an advanced diagnosis does little to enhance the course of treatment after birth if the findings fail to make their way from the mother’s medical record to the specialists who take on the baby’s care immediately after delivery.

Models for predicting preterm birth have historically focused on babies considered very preterm, born at 28 to 32 weeks, or moderate to late preterm, born at 32 to 37 weeks. Only a few studies have looked at those born extremely preterm, before 28 weeks of development, yet these early fetuses account for the vast majority of newborn deaths.

Vanderbilt’s Master of Science in Applied Clinical Informatics program (MSACI) is now accepting applications for fall 2022.

  Apply today! https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/biomedical-informatics/research-ms-and-phd-program/application-and-admission/

DBMI's Patrick Wu, Wei-Qi Wei, Scott Nelson, Qingxia "Cindy" Chen, Dan Roden,

Thomas Reese, PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and Siru Liu, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow in DBMI, and colleagues published a study in JAMIA titled "The Potential for Leveraging Machine Learning to Filter Medication Alerts".