From a slate of candidate papers recommended by the Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee, the Awards Committee will recognize up to five notable and distinguished papers from the Annual
Congratulations to BMI alumni Adi Gundlapalli and Per Gesteland, whose paper, "The EpiCanvas infectious disease weather map: an interactive visual exploration of temporal and spatial correlations" was
Congratulations to Drs. Guilherme Del Fiol and Charlene Weir, et al. who received a Best Paper Award at the Second IEEE Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging, and Systems Biology (HISB).
Join us in welcoming Dr. Gang Luo as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) as of August 15, 2012. Prior to accepting a faculty position with...
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jennifer Garvin joined the Department of Biomedical Informatics on August 15, 2012 as an Associate Professor. Prior to Garvin accepting a faculty position...
Efficient Acquisition and Reconstruction of Cardiac MRI Using Under-Sampled Radial Trajectories, Temporally Constrained Reconstruction, and High Performance GPU Clusters
Catherine Staes, Assistant Professor at the University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics, was appointed to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Committee on Occupational
Dr. Julio Facelli was presented with the Reed Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence. This award is chosen by the students. Sharanya Raghunath was presented with the Houtchens Award for best...
HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is a widely used standard for exchanging clinical document. CDA documents are made up of CDA templates. Today, lacking exchangeable, computable CDA
On April 25, 2012, the Biomedical Informatics and the Nursing Informatics programs held a dinner to celebrate this year's graduates. Approximately 45 people attended the dinner, including Richard and
An Evaluation of LOINC, RadLex and SNOMED CT as Complementary Terminologies for Radiology and Imaging Report Representation as Tested on NIH Radiology and Imaging Content.
Genetic testing of human genomic sequence plays a vital clinical role. Elucidation of gene variation can provide a precise diagnosis, as well as recommendations and prognosis for patients with heritable
Zettabytes of electronic data are generated each year. Such big data have fundamentally changed both biomedical research and healthcare practice. Informatics is playing a key role in this revolution.
Genetic testing is becoming increasingly important to medical practice since the completion of the Human Genome project. To realize the full promise of personalized medicine, we need to first integrate
Qing Zeng, PhD, in the Department of Biomedical Informatics received a notice of award for a three year RO1 grant from the NIH National Library of Medicine in the amount...
Multivariate assays using gene expression as their contributing factors, such as the centroid-based PAM50 Breast Cancer Intrinsic Classifier, are becoming commonly used in assisting treatment decisions in
This presentation will describe research Dr Sward has conducted with BMI faculty, at the intersection between clinical research informatics and clinical decision support/knowledge management. The primary
Visualization tools are essential for deriving meaning from the avalanche of data we are generating today. To facilitate an understanding of the complex relationships embedded in this data, visualization
Controlled clinical terminologies are essential to realizing the benefits of electronic health record systems. However, implementing consistent and sustainable use of terminology has proven to be both
The ubiquity of social technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, and wikis has enabled new forms of interaction that occur at a pace and scale never before possible. A growing number...
Public health reporting is an important source of information for public health investigation and surveillance, which are necessary for the prevention and control of disease. There are two main problems...
Data quality has become a significant issue in healthcare as large preexisting databases are integrated to provide greater depth for research and process improvement. Large scale data integration exposes
