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The new Center for Improving the Public\u2019s Health Using Informatics will focus on the \u201careas of public health reporting and data exchange with healthcare, integration and use of evolving data systems, real-time predictive analytics, population surveillance and risk-adjustment and medical product surveillance,\u201d according to the announcement.

VUMC-CROP.jpg<\/bsp-image>Also See<\/b>: Buffalo med school gets $2.5M grant to train informatics researchers<\/a>

Co-directed by Michael Matheny, MD, and Melissa McPheeters, the center is a joint venture of VUMC\u2019s Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Institute for Medicine and Public Health and is intended to coordinate with state and national public health agencies.

\u201cTo protect and improve the public\u2019s health, the public health system and healthcare must work closely together, and academic health centers have a tremendous opportunity to help bridge the gap and support our public health partners,\u201d says McPheeters. \u201cWe will do this through innovative projects and research to test best practices, as well as filling a tremendous need for capacity in the public health informatics workforce.\u201d

McPheeters, a research professor in the Departments of Health Policy and Biomedical Informatics, recently returned to VUMC after serving three years as an assistant commissioner at the Tennessee Department of Health, where she built an informatics program that included advanced analytics to counter the opioid crisis.

\u201cWith the explosion of data science and increasing access to public and private data sources, we can innovate with new methods and frameworks to improve methods and processes in areas of analytics, reportable conditions, and medical product surveillance, and to work with operational partners to disseminate these developments,\u201d says Matheny, an associate professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medicine, who has been at VUMC for 12 years and has developed a research program in risk prediction modeling, natural language processing, and medical product surveillance.","saveContent":"Vanderbilt University Medical Center is creating a hub for developing and testing informatics to improve population health and bolster graduate education in public health informatics.

The new Center for Improving the Public\u2019s Health Using Informatics will focus on the \u201careas of public health reporting and data exchange with healthcare, integration and use of evolving data systems, real-time predictive analytics, population surveillance and risk-adjustment and medical product surveillance,\u201d according to the announcement.

VUMC-CROP.jpg<\/bsp-image>Also See<\/b>: Buffalo med school gets $2.5M grant to train informatics researchers<\/a>

Co-directed by Michael Matheny, MD, and Melissa McPheeters, the center is a joint venture of VUMC\u2019s Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Institute for Medicine and Public Health and is intended to coordinate with state and national public health agencies.

\u201cTo protect and improve the public\u2019s health, the public health system and healthcare must work closely together, and academic health centers have a tremendous opportunity to help bridge the gap and support our public health partners,\u201d says McPheeters. \u201cWe will do this through innovative projects and research to test best practices, as well as filling a tremendous need for capacity in the public health informatics workforce.\u201d

McPheeters, a research professor in the Departments of Health Policy and Biomedical Informatics, recently returned to VUMC after serving three years as an assistant commissioner at the Tennessee Department of Health, where she built an informatics program that included advanced analytics to counter the opioid crisis.

\u201cWith the explosion of data science and increasing access to public and private data sources, we can innovate with new methods and frameworks to improve methods and processes in areas of analytics, reportable conditions, and medical product surveillance, and to work with operational partners to disseminate these developments,\u201d says Matheny, an associate professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medicine, who has been at VUMC for 12 years and has developed a research program in risk prediction modeling, natural language processing, and medical product surveillance.","order":0,"get_parent":{},"attributes":[],"attributesType":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"dynamicContent":""}]

VUMC launches new public health, informatics center

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