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Q&A: Personalizing Medicine
David H. Perlmutter, MD, is closing in on his first year as executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine. Originally from New York, Perlmutter has moved to St. Louis...
View ArticleThe Future of Electronic Health Records: 6 Predictions
Although the first electronic health record (EHR) systems appeared as far back as the 1960s and the Institute of Medicine advocated for EHRs in the 1990s, their widespread adoption didn’t heat up until...
View ArticleHelping Providers Adapt to Health Information Technology
Healthcare, like so many other aspects of life, has been transformed by technology in the past few decades. But technology is only as good as the people who use it. That can be tricky at the clinical...
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Can Interactive Tools Help Patients Be Healthier?
In the Information Age, big data carries big value, especially in the healthcare arena, where there’s more information available than ever. Just think of what harnessing this data could mean to health...
View ArticleOne Patient, One Record
Patients know the drill: They visit the doctor and are asked to recite their prescription lists, along with dosages and frequency. But what if their report isn’t accurate? Wouldn’t it be nice if every...
View ArticleNew Research Data Core to Provide Big Supply of Big Data
When most people think of medical research, they envision sterile labs where scientists in white coats peer through microscopes. True, that is how some medical research is done. However, knowledge can...
View ArticleCIELO Accelerates the Speed of Health Research through Data Sharing
Research teams are usually comprised of a handful of people. Having three, four or five authors on a study is pretty standard. But what if you could tap the tools, resources and brainpower of hundreds...
View ArticleInformatics and the Fight Against Rare Pediatric Genetic Diseases
The newest scientist to join the Institute for Informatics (I²) at Washington University in St. Louis, Fuhai Li, PhD, will leverage years of expertise in biomedical informatics to research potential...
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The Institute for Informatics Goes Global
The Institute for Informatics (I²) at Washington University in St. Louis is sharing its expertise on an international stage. Recently, it created informatics workshops designed to give students and...
View ArticleNew Center Launches with Goal of Healthier Communities Through Informatics
The Center for Population Health Informatics (CPHI), a center within the Institute for Informatics (I²) at Washington University in St. Louis, is developing and studying innovative uses for data and...
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Closing the Gaps Between Research and Real Life with Data and Storytelling
Research tells us that everyone in hospitals — from doctors to patients to visitors — should be washing their hands frequently to prevent the spread of germs. “But there is still a huge problem with...
View ArticleUncovering Racial Disparities in the COVID-19 Data
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it shined a big, bright spotlight on the vital need for information. How many cases were there and where? Which communities were seeing spikes and which weren’t? Local...
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I2 Faculty Recognized as Leaders in Informatics
From left: Philip R.O. Payne, PhD; Joanna Abraham, PhD; Po-Yin Yen, PhD, RN; Tara Payne, MA; Albert Lai, PhD; and Margaret Lozovatsky, MD. In May, several Institute for Informatics (I2) faculty...
View ArticleHow a Supercomputer Can Help Cure Diseases
It may be 20 years old, but Folding@home has never been more relevant. It serves as a shining example of the possibility of using massive amounts of data, unprecedented levels of computing power and a...
View ArticleMeet the First Chief Data Scientist of Washington University
Since 2016, Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, has served as the director of the Institute for Informatics at Washington University in St. Louis. In this role, he’s grown the university’s biomedical informatics...
View ArticleBuilding the Data Engine that Makes the University’s COVID-19 Saliva Testing Go
Testing thousands of students, faculty, and staff for coronavirus? Not an easy feat. Now imagine testing them every two weeks. Teams from across Washington University in St. Louis, including the...
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Data/Bias: How do we nurture and drive equity with and within data?
I2 Annual Symposium 2021 Symposium Highlights Watch the full event from April 9, 2021 below. Welcome and Opening RemarksData/Bias Perspectives 1Bohigian Lectureship in Biomedical InformaticsData/Bias...
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BJC and WUSM announce winners of 2021-2022 Big Ideas Competition
From among 29 applications and 11 finalists, six winners have been selected for the 2021-2022 Big Ideas Competition award! Congratulations to all the winners including three I2 faculty, Thomas...
View ArticleSynthetic data mimics real health-care data without patient-privacy concerns
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to quickly understand how best to fight the virus, but it also presents challenges to initiating studies involving actual patients, such as obtaining...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Exposure Notifications system launches for university community
The Institute for Informatics is launching a smartphone system that allows Washington University faculty, staff and students to use COVID-19 Exposure Notifications. It is being launched with approval...
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