First-year fellows Lori Wong, M.D., MPH, and Daniel Liu, M.D., presented their research today at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) Fellows Day about user efficiency before and after an electronic health records update and machine learning’s potential use in digital health. Both are fellows in the UAMS/ACH Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program, whose home is the […]
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Dr. Yu Presents Pediatric Pharmacogenomics Program at Epic XGM
Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program Director Dr. Pele Yu presented at Epic’s 2021 XGM Virtual Conference about a project implemented at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in support of its pediatric pharmacogenomics program. In the presentation, Dr. Yu and Judy Allen, BSN, RN, CPN, from Arkansas Children’s Hospital, show the design, build and deployment of the Epic Genomics module […]
CI Fellowship Sets Virtual Open House Dates
Speak directly with Program Director Dr. Pele Yu at our upcoming virtual open house dates for the UAMS/ACH Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program. 3 p.m. (Central Time) on Wednesday, July 21, 2021 3 p.m. (Central Time) on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021 Dr. Yu will provide a brief introduction to the program and take questions. This is […]
Cancer DNA Blood Tests Validated By International Research Team
An international team today reports the findings of an independent assessment of five commercially-available assays for tumor DNA sequencing – a fast, cheap and less invasive method to diagnose and monitor cancer. The researchers revealed that all assays could reliably detect so-called circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) when it made up 0.5% of the total DNA […]
CI Fellow on Winning AI Competition Team
Clinical Informatics Fellow Dr. Lori Wong is part of a team from the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation (IDHI) named as a finalist in the world’s largest spatial artificial intelligence competition. The IDHI team was one of 13 North American university teams named as finalists in the 2021 OpenCV AI Competition. The IDHI […]
DBMI Professor Featured on THV11 for COVID-19 Wastewater Tracking Work
Dr. David Ussery, DBMI professor and Clinical Informatics Fellowship rotation supervisor, has been featured on Little Rock television news outlet THV11 for his research on detecting COVID-19 in wastewater. Much of Dr. Ussery’s research involves using the latest genetic sequencing technologies to explore their use in real-time, public health emergencies. “The benefit for environmental surveillance […]
Joseph Sanford, M.D., Appointed Director of UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has appointed Joseph Sanford, M.D., as director of the Institute for Digital Health & Innovation (IDHI). Dr. Sanford is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Informatics and is UAMS site director for the Department of Biomedical Informatic’s Clinical Informatics Fellowship. Sanford has been on the forefront […]
DBMI Faculty Shine at ‘Showcase’ on Digital Health
Digital technology was both the method of connecting presenters and the focus of the UAMS College of Medicine’s “Showcase of Medical Discoveries: Digital Health & Innovation” on Jan. 21, where many of the featured projects were from faculty with primary or secondary appointments in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. The showcases foster communication and collaboration […]
Clinical Informatics Featured on UAMS Health Talk Podcast
Clinical informatics takes center stage on this edition of the UAMS Health Talk Podcast. Dr. Pele Yu, professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics and program director for the department’s Clinical Informatics Fellowship, talks about how clinical informatics has the power to transform health care. Clinical informaticians design and evaluate information and communication systems that enhance individual […]
Dr. Ussery Featured in Arkansas Money & Politics
Dr. David Ussery has been featured in Arkansas Money & Politics, highlighting his membership in the Arkansas Research Alliance Academy and his work with genomics. Click here for the article.