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CONCERN Initiative Leverages Nursing Expertise into Patient Predictive Models, Receives Funding
CONCERN Initiative Leverages Nursing Expertise into Patient Predictive Models, Receives Funding Nurse expertise includes the ability to pick up cues about patients’ health from subtle changes in behavior and appearance,

CUIMC Trio Takes Leadership Roles Within Ongoing 25×5 Initiative; Rossetti To Serve As Chair
CUIMC Trio Takes Leadership Roles Within Ongoing 25×5 Initiative; Rossetti To Serve As Task Force Chair Three members of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center community have been selected as

DBMI Supports CDC Vaccine Effectiveness Research Through Real-World Data, VISION Network
DBMI Supports CDC Vaccine Effectiveness Research Through Real-World Data The relationship between the Columbia Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) has helped drive

Welcome To Columbia DBMI
Located on the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) campus, the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) is both an academic department within Columbia University and a provider of information services to NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare–a major healthcare provider in greater New York. DBMI faculty is intimately involved in the design, selection, implementation, and management of clinical systems at CUMC. Chaired by George Hripcsak, MD, DBMI is dedicated to achieving the finest basic research and applied work in informatics. Faculty research in the department includes the development and evaluation of innovative information technologies. DBMI’s faculty members and students work in a highly collaborative environment, applying informatics from the atomic level to global populations.
DBMI makes a solid commitment in its research and education to a broad view of biomedical informatics. We believe that biomedical informatics is best viewed as a basic biomedical science, with a wide variety of potential areas of application. Biomedical informatics is by its nature an experimental science, characterized by posing questions, designing experiments, performing analyses, and using the information gained to design new experiments.
About Us
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Training At DBMI
The goal of Columbia University’s training program is to advance health care through the advancement of the discipline of biomedical informatics. Our training program provides a research-oriented curriculum with rigorous formal training in informatics and data science integrated with exposure to real-world systems in clinical and research settings at our University, in our community, and around the world. Most of our graduates continue to advance the field through research as faculty members in academic institutions or through leadership and service as executives within health care facilities.
The Biomedical Informatics curriculum is designed to meet the needs of a wide range of students with different backgrounds and career goals, while providing a uniform foundation in the essentials of the field. There are several types of degrees and training opportunities: MA, PhD, MD-PhD, NLM Funded Postdoctoral Fellowship for MD and PhD graduates, Postdoctoral Research Scientist Positions for PhD graduates, ACGME accredited Clinical Informatics Subspecialty Fellowship for MD graduates, and a Health Information Technology Certification of Professional Achievement.
- We have a flexible, in-depth curriculum to train students in biomedical informatics and health data science. With the explosion of biomedical knowledge and health-related data coming from the literature, the Internet, and the Electronic Health Record, we recognize there is a vital need and an exciting opportunity to develop new methods that incorporate massive amounts of data and knowledge to derive new biomedical knowledge, and then to use the knowledge to improve human health
- We instill principles of rigor and reproducibility in research
- We teach students the methodological principles of “doing” informatics research as part of the biomedical and health ecosystems
- We create and foster an inter-disciplinary community of students, faculty, and partners
- We have a long and distinguished 27-year history of funding by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to support pre and postdoctoral fellows as part of our training program. Fellows join a rich network of NLM supported programs, attend annual conferences to present their research, and are pioneering alumni who found and lead informatics programs nationwide.
DBMI and Data Science
Biomedical informatics combines data science, human factors, and many other methodology fields with application areas in biomedicine and health. The basic informatics research goal is to search for new knowledge about information, information systems, and behavior from existing knowledge and data. Its applied research goal is to use this informatics knowledge for practical ends across a wide range of scales in biomedicine, health care, clinical research and public health. Informatics research can lead to new algorithms and ontologies, basic discoveries in the application area (e.g., discovery of roles of gene in a disease) and concrete outcomes (e.g., changes in health care practice).
DBMI is actively involved in the Columbia Data Science Institute (DSI). DBMI’s chair, Dr. George Hripcsak, authored one of the Institute’s five cores, health analytics, and sits on its executive committee. Prof. Noémie Elhadad, DBMI’s graduate program director, is the director of its health analytics center. Our students enroll in DSI courses and our faculty are close collaborators.



@ANANursingWorld You can learn more about the CONCERN Initiative here: . This is being led by DBMI and @ColumbiaNursing assistant professor @SarahRossetti47, as well as @kenrickcato. The full team is listed here: https://t.co/mqUsUZpcyQ https://t.co/6iLXKNCcQE
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We are thrilled to be leading one of the funded projects from the Reimagining Nursing Initiative. The CONCERN project will leverage nursing expertise with artificial intelligence to create prediction models that can improve patient outcomes. Thank you @ANANursingWorld!
Read MoreIt’s been an amazing few days at our DBMI Retreat at @Mohonk! So great to bring together faculty and trainees for discussions, collaboration and fun! https://t.co/IXDPXSlmG4
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