2 years ago
July 1, 2021 We are excited to welcome two new fellows to the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program! John Kim, MD and Isha Mehta, MD, MPH will participate in the 2021-2023 fellowship class! John Kim, MD is an emergency medicine (EM) physician interested in understanding how clinical informatics can provide quality healthcare and mitigate vulnerabilities within …
2 years ago
June 20, 2021 Michael Kane, MD was elected to the national specialty steering board for a 2 year term. Specialty Steering Boards provide a network for specialists across organizations to define the gold standard for Epic workflows and content in their area. Each Specialty Steering Board consists of 12 members who have been nominated and elected …
2 years ago
The UNC Hospitals Clinical Informatics Subspecialty Fellowship Program received accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in April 2019 and will welcome its 2nd class of incoming fellows this July. The program will host a virtual information session for residents, fellows, faculty, and medical students who are interested in the subspecialty on …
2 years ago
March 1, 2021 Clinical Informatics fellow Chris Evans, MD was awarded a NC TraCS pilot grant to support his research in the development of a Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) approach to identification of incidental radiology findings among discharged ED patients.
3 years ago
Timely and easy access to healthcare data, including diagnostic images, can improve patient outcomes and care coordination.
3 years ago
UNC School of Medicine researchers and collaborators use a population health intervention to prevent an estimated 6,000 heart attacks, strokes, and deaths due to cardiovascular disease at 219 North Carolina clinics.
3 years ago
UNC Health has earned 2020 College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Digital Health Most Wired recognition as a Certified Level 9 organization, earning a Performance Excellence award.
3 years ago
Programs designed to help cancer patients stop using tobacco should be considered as important and impactful as providing the right drug at the right time and at the right dose to patients, according to researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
3 years ago
In latest edition of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Dr. Michael Kane (1st Year CI Fellow at UNC Hospitals) published his work leading the development of a novel CI Training Track in the UNC Psychiatry Residency Program.
3 years ago
UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill and UNC REX Hospital in Raleigh have been named to a list of healthcare facilities recognized as leaders in providing equitable and inclusive care for LGBTQ patients, visitors and employees.
3 years ago
Seven UNC Health hospitals have received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.
3 years ago
In the first year of the Blue Premier alternative payment program, more than 80 primary care practices achieved top quality performance and significant financial savings for patients.