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Upcoming Events

Open House 2009

Interested in a cutting-edge career combining information technology with healthcare or biomedical research? If you're searching for a nationally recognized graduate program in Biomedical Informatics, plan to attend the Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program Open House this fall.  The Open House will be held Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 11:30am-3:00pm in the BICC Gallery (first floor) on OHSU's Marquam Hill campus.

For a complete list of upcoming events, view the full schedule for the current quarter.

DMICE Headlines

DMICE announces new Excellence in Informatics Scholarship

Just What The President Ordered: OHSU biomedical informatics hires interns, trainees, and college faculty with federal stimulus funds

Providence and OHSU Launch Medical Informatics Training Program


DMICE Chair, William Hersh, MD, receives AMIA's Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics


Google funds OHSU Medical Image Retrieval Project


Adam Wright, PhD (OHSU '07) is involved in the medical information network at Harvard and has the goal of reducing deaths due to medical errors (Lake Oswego Review, April 17, 2008).

William Hersh, MD, DMICE Professor and Chair presented the findings of an analytical report on April 17, 2008 at a meeting on Capitol Hill of the Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics. If the U.S. healthcare system moves toward wider adoption of advanced information technology systems to control health care costs, reduce medical errors and improve patient care, it will need at least 40,000 additional health IT professionals – or almost 40 percent more than U.S. hospitals are now estimated to employ (press release).

NEW Introduction to Programming course

This non-credit, online course is offered on an on-going basis and will introduce the beginning programmer to programming structure and design, creating a solid foundation for all types of programming. The emphasis will be on procedural programming and control structures, although exercises will be in Java. The course is self-paced: you may register and begin at any time, then proceed at any pace. You must complete the lessons in order prior to registering for BMI 540 - Introduction to Computer Science with Java Programming. The course fulfills the pre-requisite for BMI 540. The fee for the course is $500. See complete registration and payment information.

Our computer lab has moved!

The DMICE computer lab is now located in the basement of the BICC building in Room 26. Take the left elevator from the lobby to the basement. Turn right when exiting the elevator. Room 26 is near the end of the hall on the right.

Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center Awarded $10 Million in Federal Funding

The Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center, a collaboration among Oregon Health & Science University, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, recently was awarded $10 million in federal research contracts from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
 
Newsletter Issue 11, Fall 2009 Oct 7, 2009
Newsletter Issue 11, Fall 2009 [ More... ]
 
Providence/OHSU Training Program Apr 13, 2009
Providence/OHSU Medical Informatics Training Program [ More... ]
 
Newsletter Issue 10, Spring 2009 Apr 10, 2009
Newsletter Issue 10, Spring 2009 [ More... ]
 
Hersh receives AMIA's Lindberg Award Nov 13, 2008
DMICE Chair, William Hersh, receives AMIA's Lindberg Award for Innovation in Medical Informatics [ More... ]
 
Newsletter Issue 9, Fall 2008 Oct 1, 2008
Medical informatics Newsletter Volume 9 [ More... ]
 
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