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Celebrating the end of a fantastic internship! Our BIDS@I2DB interns concluded their 11-week program with an impressive poster session on Wednesday, July 31. The BIDS@I2DB program offers internships for undergraduate and graduate students to explore biomedical informatics. Under faculty mentors, interns engaged in cutting-edge research, training, and collaboration. They: Congratulations to our talented interns for […]

Recent research by first author Seunghwan (Nigel) Kim, MS, BIDS PhD student, and supporting authors Benjamin Warner, MS, Daphne Lew, PhD, MPH, Sunny Lou, MD, PhD, and Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, introduces “action entropy” as a measure to assess cognitive effort in electronic health record (EHR) tasks. By analyzing EHR audit logs, neural language models were used to […]

Congratulations to Linying Zhang, PhD, who received the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2024 Edward H. Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (second place) for her doctoral dissertation titled “Causal machine earning for reliable real-world evidence generation in healthcare.” She will give a semi-plenary talk on her dissertation work at the 2024 AMIA Annual Symposium on Monday, Nov. […]

Congratulations to coauthor Dr. Ling Chen and her team for their publication in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, where they found that even minor cognitive changes can influence older adults’ decision to cease driving. Their research highlights the importance of routine cognitive testing to detect early and subtle decline, enabling older […]

Congratulations to WashU’s Sunny Lou, MD, PhD, and co-authors Daphne Lew, PhD, PMH, Laura Baratta, BS, Elise Eiden, MS, and Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, in collaboration with Christine Sinsky, MD, from the American Medical Association, on their recent publication in JAMA Network Open. The study explores the association between secure messaging and telephone use in clinician-to-clinician communication, highlighting the […]

Earlier this month, Washington University School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare became the newest members of the Health AI Partnership (HAIP), a multi-stakeholder collaborative of more than 20 organizations and growing that seeks to create safe spaces for peer learning and collaboration to address the most challenging issues health care leaders face while implementing AI.  The HAIP […]

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is launching a Center for Translational Bioinformatics, an innovative joint effort of the university’s McDonnell Genome Institute and the Institute for Informatics, Data Science & Biostatistics. The center will bring together experts from diverse fields to accelerate precision medicine research and improve patient care by integrating comprehensive patient data and […]

Four winners have been selected for the 2024-2025 Big Ideas Competition award! Each of these remarkable teams will be awarded a grant of $50,000 in research funds for their outstanding projects. Among the winning teams is Dr. Jing Li from the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB).  (PI / project lead in bold): […]

WashU researchers have combined artificial intelligence and mobile health data to better predict patients’ recovery from lumbar spine surgery. The techniques were developed at the university’s AI for Health Institute.

Sunny Lin, PhD, MS, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of General Medical Sciences and I2DB, served as a guest editor for the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC)’s issue titled “The Health Information Technology Special Issue: Making Innovations Impactful, Ethical, and Equitable.” In her letter as guest editor, she delves into the […]