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...

Webinar for the pFINDR Program Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 Time: 1-2 PM (Eastern Time), 10-11 AM (Pacific Time) Phenotype Discover (PhenDisco): A New Phenotype Search Tool for dbGaP Data Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California, San Diego Biomedical researchers are trying to elucidate mechanisms of disease progression using informationderived from a combination of data derived from genotypes, phenotypes (e.g., clinical manifestation...

Coping with, and Taking Advantage of, HIPAA's New Rules Date: Fri Apr 19, 2013 Host: Deven McGraw Center for Democracy & Technology ABSTRACT In January, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released final regulations to implement the changes to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules mandated by Congress in both the HITECH Act and GINA (Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act). In this webinar, I will summarize the major provisions of the rule, focusing in particular on...

Jose Pruneda-Paz of UC San Diego on "Uncovering Transcriptional Circuits in Arabidopsis by Functional Genomics" at the 8th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Eric Allen of Scripps and UC San Diego on "Assembly-driven metagenomics of a hypersaline microbial ecosystem" at the 8th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 27, 2013 in Walnut Creek, Calif.

New Tools for Data Discovery and Sharing Confidential Data at ICPSR Dr. George Alter Professor of History Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research University of Michigan ABSTRACT Founded in 1962, ICPSR is the world’s largest archive of social science data. This presentation will provide background on ICPSR’s activities with emphasis on recent developments in data discovery and access to confidential data. New search tools are being developed to...

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

Identifying clinical/translational research cohorts: ascertainment via querying an integrated multi-source database

Clinical Decision Support for Genetically Guided Personalized Medicine: a Systematic Review

SHARE: Statistical and Synthetic Health Information Release Under Differential Privacy Dr. Li Xiong Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Department of Biomedical Informatics Emory University Abstract: Protecting privacy of human subjects while enabling large-scale analysis of clinical and public health data is a key challenge in health research. In this talk, I will present the SHARE (Statistical Health informAtion RElease) framework for...