Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology

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DMICE Headlines

Dr. Heidi Nelson and other researchers in the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center had a paper published in the November 17, 2009 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The paper, Screening for Breast Cancer: An Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, came from an evidence review by the Oregon EPC authors used to inform the recent Task Force recommendations on breast cancer screening, which changed from its 2002 guidelines.

Coverage in The Oregonian about the Task Force Recommendations and Dr. Nelson's evidence review can be found at:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/task_force_recommends_against.html

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.

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