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Post-Bac Health Informatics Certificate - An Educational Collaboration with Temple University
Earn Your Temple Post-Bac Health Informatics Certificate. Now Accepting Applications for the Next Class Starting in the Fall of 2013. Classes will take place on the CHOP campus.
CBMi Featured in Nature Article: "De novo mutations in histone-modifying genes in congenital heart disease"
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most frequent birth defect, affecting 0.8% of live births1. Many cases occur sporadically and impair reproductive fitness, suggesting a role for de novo mutations. Here we compare the incidence of de novo mutations in 362 severe CHD cases and 264 controls by analysing exome sequencing of parent–offspring trios. CBMi staff contributed to this article published online in Nature May 12, 2013.
Art Drawn from the 6th Annual Mid-Atlantic Healthcare Informatics Symposium
Regina Holliday is an activist, artist, speaker and author in Washington DC. She participated in the Patient engagement panel at the 6th Annual Mid-Atlantic Healthcare Informatics Symposium on April 26, 2013. Not only was she a very engaging speaker but she also painted the content she hears from the patient view. You can read more and see the paintings she created at our symposium in her blog "Regina Holliday's Medical Advocacy Blog."
Philadelphia Hospitals’ Informatics Teams Target Sepsis Response
Sepsis, a dangerous condition caused by the immune system’s response to a serious infection, is one of the toughest challenges hospitals face. It causes 17 percent of all hospital deaths and is the leading cause of death in non-cardiac intensive-care units. Additionally, the incidence of sepsis is increasing in the United States. But healthcare informatics researchers are working on ways to quicken response times and improve outcomes. Two presentations by CBMi's Dr. Robert Grundmeier and medical candidate Katherine Clark from the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine presented at the 6th Annual Mid-Atlantic Healthcare Informatics Symposium are discussed in Healthcare Informatics Online.
CBMi pediatricians talk about health IT innovations for vaccines asthma
Doctors Robert Grundmeier and Alexander Fiks at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at CHOP talked about the Care Assistant program at a recent health IT seminar at the Quorum at the University City Science Center. It was originally designed as a tool to do more precise decision-support projects to improve healthcare outcomes using the provider’s electronic health record system from Epic.
CBMi Collaboration Awarded First Place at HIMSS 2013
CBMi's Dr. Anthony Luberti and PolicyLab's Elizabeth Brooks, MPH, were awarded first place for their poster "Linking Patient Questionnaires to the EHR: Making Optimal Use of the Waiting Room" at the HIMSS 2013 Annual Symposium in New Orleans, March 3 - 7, 2013.
Longitudinal Pediatric Data Resource Featured in NBSTRN News
The Longitudinal Pediatric Data Resource (LPDR) developed by CBMi is featured in the March issue of the Newborn Screening Translational Network (NBSTRN) newsletter. The LPDR is available for researchers, clinicians, and public health teams to use for secure data collection, sharing, management, and analysis across newborn screening conditions while establishing a valuable resource for the community.
CBMi's Mike Italia, Alex Felmeister, Stacey Wrazien Present at AMIA Joint Summits
CBMI's Mike Italia will be presenting his abstract "Harvest: A Web-Based Biomedical Data Discovery and Reporting Application Development Platform" at the AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science on Tuesday March 18, 2013. Alex Felmesiter and Stacey Wrazien will be presenting posters.
CBMi Creates Shared Decision Making Portal
CBMi's Dr. Robert Grundmeier and lead Human Computer Interaction Specialist Dean Karavite collaborated with CHOP's Dr. Alexander Fiks on the creation of the Shared Decision Making Portal for Pediatric Chronic Illness. Drs. Fiks and Grundmeier’s portal is a modification of MyChart that greatly expands MyChart’s capabilities. While the pilot version of the portal is focused solely on asthma, Dr. Fiks and his team hope to eventually introduce versions geared toward other diseases, such as ADHD.
CBMi Featured in 2012 CHOP Research Institute Annual Report
The Center for Biomedical Informatics is featured in the 2012 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute Annual Report.
