Clinical Research Coordinators in the Emergency Department at Cincinnati Children’s are using ACTES, an artificial intelligence tool, to identify eligible subjects from Electronic Health Records. More than 70,000 patients visit the Emergency Department at Cincinnati Children’s each year. Visits are
We are proud to introduce the 2019 class of Biomedical Informatics PhD students. They arrive on August 23 from places both near and far—Cincinnati, Kentucky, China, and Finland. They have backgrounds in biology, digital health, and computer science. They also bring unique perspectives and passions to our program.
A team of BMI data experts is leading an effort to develop the technology behind the International Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) Registry. The registry is a collaborative effort by physicians and researchers from North America, Europe, and Australia to
A research team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a $150,000 grant to repurpose Barasertib as a potential treatment for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Using a computational drug discovery pipeline coupled with preclinical validation studies, Anil Jegga, DVM, MRes,
Peter S. White, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and its partner division at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, recently announced the addition of two new faculty members to the team:
A research team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a $626,000 grant to test saracatinib (AZD0530), an experimental drug, as a new potential treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF). The grant will support further preclinical evaluation of this new
Building on its successful Teaching Fellowship program, the Biomedical Informatics (BMI) Graduate Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is rolling out three additional student award programs in the new year. The new BMI Travel Fellowship offers up
Two natural language processing (NLP) systems developed by Yizhao Ni, PhD recently finished as top performers in a national challenge hosted by Harvard Medical School and the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University. The National NLP Clinical Challenges (n2c2) took place
Our newest class of Biomedical Informatics PhD students arrived for the fall semester on August 23. These students come from all over the world, including Nigeria and China. Their backgrounds vary from biochemistry to microbiology to medicine. What they all
Danny T. Y. Wu, PhD has won a grant from the AAMI Foundation to develop and evaluate a machine learning algorithm to more accurately detect pediatric weight entry errors. The algorithm is a next step in developing a computerized medication safety