Biomedical Informatics Journal Club

The Journal Club is jointly sponsored by DBMI-UCSD/iDASH*. It features outstanding biomedical informatics articles in a live and recorded webinar available to all every first Thursday of the month, at 3pm EST. This webinar is free for all and there is no need to register in advance.

Journal Club Webinars are currently on hiatus.

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Journal Club Webinars

Date	Presenting authors	Affiliation	Webinar	Get pdf
6/04/15	Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD William W. Stead, MD	University of Wisconsin-Madison Vanderbilt University	Informatics to support the IOM Social and Behavioral Domains and Measures	article slides
5/07/15	Chunhua Weng, PhD	Columbia University	Case-based reasoning using electronic health records efficiently identifies eligible patients for clinical trials	article slides
4/02/15	Azadeh Nikfarjam	Arizona State University	Pharmacovigilance from social media: mining adverse drug reaction mentions using sequence labeling with word embedding cluster features	article slides
3/05/15	Edward P Ambinder, MD, FASCO Jeremy L Warner, MD, MS	Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahns School of Medicine Vanderbilt University	Development, implementation, and initial evaluation of a foundational open interoperability standard for oncology treatment planning and summarization	article slides
2/05/15	Vivian L. West, PhD, MBA, RN	Duke University, Duke Center for Health Informatics	Innovative information visualization of electronic health record data: a systematic review	article slides
12/04/14	Yves Lussier, MD	University of Arizona	Challenges and remediation for Patient Safety Indicators in the transition to ICD-10_CM.	article slides
10/3/14	Hua Xu, PhD	University of Texas Health Sciences Center	Health Records: a case study of metformin associated with reduced cancer mortality	article slides
9/04/14	Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH Dean Sittig, PhD	Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine University of Texas Health Sciences Center	An analysis of electronic health record-related patient safety concerns	article slides
7/03/14	Carolyn L. Turvey, PhD	University of Iowa	Blue Button use by patients to access and share health record information using the Department of Veterans Affairs’ online patient portal	article slides
6/05/14	Shobha Phansalker, RPh, PhD	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Evaluation of medication alerts in electronic health records for compliance with human factors principles	article slides
5/01/14	Jeffrey Klann, PhD	Harvard Medical School	Query Health: standards-based, cross-platform population health surveillance	article slides
4/03/14	Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD and Shuang Wang, PhD	University of California San Diego	HUGO: Hierarchical mUlti-reference Genome cOmpression for aligned reads	article slides
3/06/14	Chaitanya Shivade	The Ohio State University	A review of approaches to identifying patient phenotype cohorts using electronic health records	article slides
2/06/14	Harry B. Burke, MD, PhD	Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences	QNOTE: an instrument for measuring the quality of EHR clinical note	article slides
12/05/13	Peter White, MD and Michael Italia, M.S	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Harvest: an open platform for developing web-based biomedical data discovery and reporting applications	article slides
11/07/13	Imre Solti, PhD	Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center	Developing and evaluating an automated appendicitis risk stratification algorithm for pediatric patients in the emergency department	article slides
10/03/13	Jessica Tenenbaum, PhD and Melissa Haendel, PhD	Duke Translational Medicine Institute (DTMI) Biomedical Informatics Core / Oregon Health & Science University	A sea of standards for omics data: sink or swim?	article slides
09/05/13	Son Doan, PhD and Hyeon-eui Kim, RN, MPH, PhD	University of California San Diego	PhenDisco: phenotype discovery system for the database of genotypes and phenotypes	article slides
08/01/13	Kimberly Shoenbill, MD, MS	University of Wisconsin	Genetic data and electronic health records: a discussion of ethical, logistical and technological considerations	article slides
06/06/13	Peter J. Embi, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI	Ohio State University	Computerized provider documentation: findings and implications of a multisite study of clinicians and administrators	article slides
05/02/13	David C. Radley, PhD, MPH	Institute for Healthcare Improvement	Reduction in medication errors in hospitals due to adoption of computerized provider order entry systems	article slides
04/04/13	Guergana Savova, PhD	Harvard Medical School	Towards comprehensive syntactic and semantic annotations of the clinical narrative	article slides
03/07/13	Griffin Weber, MD, PhD	Harvard Medical School	Federated queries of clinical data repositories: the sum of the parts does not equal the whole	article
02/07/13	Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD and Brandon Welch, MS	University of Utah	Clinical Decision Support for Genetically Guided Personalized Medicine: a Systematic Review	slides
01/03/13	Deven McGraw, JD, MPH	Center for Democracy and Technology	Building Public Trust in Uses if HIPAA De-Identified Data	article
12/06/12	J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD	Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	Online Disease Management of Diabetes: Engaging and Motivating Patients Online With Enhanced Resources-Diabetes (EMPOWER-D), A Randomized Controlled Trial	slides
11/01/12	John F. Hurdle, MD, PhD and Geraldine P. Mineau, PhD	University of Utah	Identifying Clinical/Translational Research Cohorts: Ascertainment via Querying an Integrated Multi-source Database	slides
10/04/12	David C. Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH	MetroHealth System	Patient Characteristics associated with Venous Thromboembolic Events: a Cohort Study Using Pooled Electronic Health Record Data	slides
09/06/12	Casey Lynette Overby, PhD	University of Washington	Deriving rules and assertions from pharmacogenomics knowledge resources in support of patient drug metabolism efficacy predictions	slides
08/02/12	Casimir A. Kulikowski, PhD and Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD	Rutgers University	Definition of biomedical informatics and specification of core competencies for graduate education in the discipline	slides
07/05/12	Robert Carroll, MS	Vanderbilt University	Portability of an algorithm to identify rheumatoid arthritis in electronic health records
06/07/12	Jeffrey Schnipper, MD, MPH	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Effects of an online personal health record on medication accuracy and safety: A cluster-randomized trial	article
05/03/12	Zeshan A. Rajput, MD, MS	Accenture	Evaluation of an Android-based mHealth for population surveillance in developing countries.	article
04/05/12	Les Lenert, MD	University of Utah	Shifts in the architecture of the Nationwide Health Information Network.	article
03/01/12	Adam Wright, PhD and David Bates, MD	Partners Healthcare	Improving completeness of electronic problem lists through clinical decision support: a randomized, controlled trial	article
02/02/12	Lee Cooper, MD and Joel Saltz, MD	Emory University	Integrated Morphologic Analysis for the Identification and Characterization of Disease Subtypes	article
01/05/12	Don Detmer, MD	University of Virginia	A global traveler's electronic health record template standard for personal health records external link	article
12/01/11	Ann McKibbon, PhD	McMaster University	The effectiveness of integrated health information technologies across the phases of medication management: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials	article
11/03/11	Nicholas Tatonetti	Stanford University	Discovering hidden drug-drug interactions from adverse event reports	article
10/06/11	Gil Kuperman, MD, PhD	New York Presbiterian Hospital	Health Information Exchange: Why Are We Doing It, and What Are We Doing?	article
09/01/11	Cynthia Gadd, PhD	Vanderbilt University	User Perspectives on the Usability of a Regional Health Information Exchange	article
08/04/11	Yves Lussier, MD and James Chen, MD	University of Chicago	Protein Interactions Elucidate Shared Oncogenic Pathways in Disjoint Prognostic Signatures in Breast and Prostate Cancers	article
07/07/11	Jyotishman Pathak, PhD	Mayo Clinic	Mapping Clinical Phenotype Data Elements to Standardized Meta-Data Repositories and Controlled Terminologies: the eMERGE Network Experience	article
06/02/11	George Hripcsak, MD	Columbia University	Use of Electronic Clinical Documentation: Time Spent and Team Interactions	article

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*Up to March 2013, webinars listed above were jointly sponsored by AMIA and DBMI at UCSD.