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A new online asthma tracking tool developed by researchers at the University of Utah focuses on preventing rather than managing exacerbations and has been shown to reduce emergency-room

The Department of Biomedical Informatics was well represented at AMIA this year. Please join us in congratulating and recognizing the following for their awards, elections and participation in the AMIA...

Congratulations to Catherine Staes, who was selected as a recipient of the 2014 AAMC Learning Health System Pioneer Research Award.

Congratulations to Mumtahena Rahman for receiving the 2014 Kathy McCaffrey Memorial Endowed Scholarship, an AHIMA Foundation Merit Scholarship.

Biomedical Informatics Vice-Chair, Julio Facelli, PhD, was elected to be a fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). "The College originated in 1984 when five pioneers in informatics...

Biomedical Informatics faculty and students at the University of Utah have received two nominations for distinguished paper awards

Beginning in January 2015, Biomedical Informatics Associate Professor Jennifer Garvin will begin her second two-year term on the Content Committee for the

Please join us for the Annual Alumni Dinner at AMIA in Washington, DC on Monday, November 17

Five new PhD, seven new MS, and three new certificate students started in the Department in August. To get them acquainted with BMI, we had the annual new student orientation...

The Department of Biomedical Informatics is pleased to announce Darin Humphrey’s as the recipient of the Rolland H. Reiter Scholarship. Dr. Reiter

We would like to announce that Megha Kalsy and Polina Kukhareva, Graduate Students in Biomedical Informatics have been awarded the 2014 Orthner Travel Assistance Award

The American Academy of Nursing has selected Mollie Cummins, PhD, RN, as one of 168 nurse leaders for induction as fellows during the Academy's 2014 Transforming Health, Driving Policy Conference...

The Office of Medical Education announces an exciting opportunity for academic year 2014-2015. We are seeking applications from MD and PhD faculty

Congratulations to Roosan Islam (Principal Investigator) for receiving the NIH R-36 (AHRQ) Dissertation Award.

Congratulations to Karen Eilbeck, PhD, for winning the 2014 Reed M. Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence. The Gardner award was established in 2005 to acknowledge

Congratulations to BMI student Brandon Welch, whose project, Doxy.me, won $5,000 for "Best Written Business Plan" in the 2014 Utah Entrepreneur Challenge.

The March 27th, 2014 BMI Graduate Seminar has been cancelled. Please update your

The iDeas that Work competition (http://www.ihealthconference.org/program/ideas-that-work-competition/) provided an opportunity for companies to demonstrate how they are overcoming challenges in healthcare through operational and applied clinical informatics initiatives. Six finalists showcased...

Congratulations to the following physicians who successfully passed the board exam in October 2013 to become certified in the new subspecialty of clinical informatics

AMIA and the California HealthCare Foundation challenged applicants to show how they are overcoming real-world challenges in health care through operational

Dr. Ram Gouripeddi, Assistant Professor and Dr. Julio Facelli, Professor of Biomedical Informatics are among six researchers who were awarded a seed grant from the University

The Department of Biomedical Informatics will move to 421 Wakara Way in Research Park

Roosan Islam, PharmD has been awarded the HIMSS (Health Information Management System Society) foundation scholarship for 2013. This award is given to