The
Informatics Center at Vanderbilt functions
as a highly effective system of people, processes
and technology working at all levels of the medical
center to improve healthcare.
We use information, technology, and communication
to change the face of healthcare to provide the best
care, education and research possible.
Informatics Center Strategic Plan - 2005
IC Strategic Plan Progress Report - 6/2006
The
Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library (EBL)
provides access to materials to support the patient care, healthcare education,
and biomedical research missions of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The library is committed to service, leading edge research into information
management and utilization, and has developed numerous innovative programs integrating
information into workflow — effectively placing information specialists
at the patient bedside or the research bench to identify and meet information
needs.
Information
Systems develops and integrates new technologies with existing information systems to improve health care processes, decision-making, and outcomes
Services include Data Center operations, Help Desk, Change Management, Disaster Recovery, and project management and support.
System implementation and support includes Medipac, EPIC, and third party applications.
Information Technology Integration implements and improves critical enterprise architecture, decision support, enterprise servers and technical support
Network
Computing Systems (NCS) provides a variety
of computing services to the entire Vanderbilt community. These include but
are not limited to maintenance of the network infrastructure, to computer hardware
sales, to email services.
NCS has implemented a one-stop-shopping center for departments to provide the
most efficient and most effective model for technical support.
Dept.
of Biomedical Informatics has a 3-fold mission: to educate undergraduate,
graduate, and postgraduate trainees in the theory and practice of biomedical
informatics; to develop and evaluate innovative technologies for the storage,
retrieval, dissemination, and application of biomedical knowledge, in order
to support clinical practice, research, life-long learning, and administration
and as a result, to contribute to the professional body of knowledge regarding
biomedical informatics; and t o maintain cooperation and collegiality with all
those who learn and work with us locally, nationally, and internationally; and,
to develop and disseminate ethical and professional standards for the conduct
of biomedical informatics research and for the utilization and evaluation of
health care informatics applications.
