Clinical Informatics

Informatics Tool Accurately Detects Antibiotic Allergy Adverse Events

May 31, 2023 - Researchers have developed a health informatics tool capable of detecting antibiotic allergy adverse events in near real-time, which may help provide clinicians with feedback about the harms of prolonged antibiotic exposure, according to a study published recently in JAMA Network Open. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report...

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MIT, Philips Expand Dataset for Health AI Development

by Shania Kennedy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and health technology company Philips announced an expansion to their critical care dataset at HIMSS 2023 earlier this week, giving researchers access to...

AI Education Needed to Prepare Medical Students for Clinical Practice

by Shania Kennedy

In a recent commentary published in Cell Reports Medicine, University of Michigan researchers argued that the lack of education on healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) in medical school leaves...

Experts Call for More Randomized Controlled Trials of Clinical AI

by Shania Kennedy

In a new systematic review published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, researchers concluded that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tools...

Biomedical Informatics, Data Science Program Wins $4M NIH Grant

by Shania Kennedy

Rice University’s National Library of Medicine Training Program (NLMTP) in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science has been awarded a $4.16 million grant to extend its program, which focuses on...

SNOMED Strikes Partnership to Support Healthcare Research Opportunities

by Shania Kennedy

SNOMED International announced a five-year partnership with the non-profit global research collaborative Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) to open new opportunities for...

Assessing AI, Data Use Key Priorities of Stanford’s First Data Chief

by Anuja Vaidya

As new modes of data analysis evolve and become increasingly integrated into clinical care, healthcare organizations are looking to get ahead of the curve and solidify their approach to data science. Stanford Health Care in California is...

Yale Establishes Biomedical Data Science Fellowship Program

by Jill McKeon

Yale University and Boehringer Ingelheim have partnered to launch a Biomedical Data Science Fellowship program, to be awarded to post-doctoral researchers focused on drug discovery and...

Vanderbilt Launches New Clinical Informatics, Data Center

by Jessica Kent

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has launched the new Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC), which will promote and support collaborations in clinical informatics across the...

AMIA Seeks Further Clarity on FDA Clinical Decision Support Guidance

by Jessica Kent

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has expressed its support for the FDA’s updated guidance for regulating clinical decision support (CDS) software, but experts are also calling...

AMIA Updates Requirements for Clinical Informatics Specialists

by Jessica Kent

Clinical informatics specialists should refine their skills in response to industry changes, including the use of EHR data and innovative data analytics technologies, according to a report published in...

“Basic Science” of Healthcare Big Data Analytics Still Needs Work

by Jennifer Bresnick

The healthcare industry still needs to focus on developing the foundational building blocks of big data analytics by creating and implementing meaningful data standards, says the American Medical...

Academic, Research Orgs to Form Health Data, Informatics Center

by Jennifer Bresnick

Nine academic institutions and research labs have received a five-year, $25 million grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science to develop a national health data analytics and...

AMA Launches Integrated Healthcare Big Data Analytics Platform

by Jennifer Bresnick

The American Medical Association is working to develop an integrated big data analytics and clinical informatics platform that will offer a common data model for organizations seeking to deliver the...

GAO Eyes Population Health, Big Data with HIT Advisory Committee

by Jennifer Bresnick

Population health management and big data analytics skills are high on the priority list for the fifteen new members of the Government Accountability Office’s new Health Information Technology...

Informatics, Machine Learning Accelerate Pharmaceutical Discovery

by Jennifer Bresnick

Machine learning, informatics, and artificial intelligence have been making quite a big splash on the clinical side of the healthcare industry during the first half of 2017, but these big data...

AMIA: Health Informatics Can Help Overcome the Big Data “Deluge”

by Jennifer Bresnick

Organizations that wish to avoid drowning in the big data deluge should turn to the life raft of health informatics, which can help providers and researchers better use data to produce meaningful...

Regenstrief, IU to Offer Population Health, Informatics Training

by Jennifer Bresnick

The Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University (IU) have announced a new program focusing on training researchers in population health informatics.  Funded by a $2.5 million award from the...

HIM Pros Must Shift from Coding to Health Informatics, Analytics

by Jennifer Bresnick

The health information management (HIM) profession is in the middle of a seismic shift as healthcare informatics and big data analytics become increasingly prized skills across the...

Nurse Informaticists Can “Triage” EHR Optimization Problems

by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare organizations still struggling to improve clinical workflows and address persistent EHR optimization and usability problems often turn first to their vendors in order to seek help with...

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