Research
Unique among academic health centers, Vanderbilt Medical Center (VMC) entrusts its Informatics Center with the responsibility for:
(a) providing the essential information infrastructure for patient care, management, research and education -- including the support for informatics-related research and education in clinical informatics and the emerging field of bioinformatics (including new initiatives in genomics and proteomics); and,
(b) fusing scholarly research in biomedical informatics with the dissemination of the resultant knowledge to individuals through its education programs and into operation through the infrastructure.
Through recent faculty recruitment of nationally prominent individuals, aggressive buildup of informatics infrastructure, and highly successful and nationally important research projects, VMC has become a national leader in biomedical informatics.
Research from the Department of Biomedical Informatics