Informatics Journal Club Webinar Date: May 2nd, 2013 (Thursday) Time: 3:00 PM- 4:00 PM (Eastern Time) 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM (Pacific Time) Reduction in medication errors in hospitals due to adoption of computerized provider order entry systems Radley, D.C., Wasserman, M.R., Olsho, L.E.W., Shoemaker, S.J., Spranca, M.D., Bradshaw, B. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013 May 1. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23425440 David C. Radley, Ph.D., M.P.H., Institute for Healthcare Improvement...

March 2013, JAMIA Webinar. Presenter: Griffin Weber,MD. CIO of Harvard Medical School

Abstract The AMIA biomedical informatics (BMI) core competencies have been designed to support and guide graduate education in BMI, the core scientific discipline underlying the breadth of the field's research, practice, and education. The core definition of BMI adopted by AMIA specifies that BMI is ‘the interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, motivated...

Abstract Objectives: Electronic health record (EHR) can allow for the generation of large cohort of individuals with given diseases for clinical and genomic research. A rate-limiting step is the development of electronic phenotype selection algorithms to find such cohorts. This study evaluated the portability of a published phenotype algorithm to identify rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients from HER records at three institutions with different EHR systems. Material and Methods: Physicians...