CURRENT ISSUE  •  JUNE 29, 2012

Clinical enterprise well prepared for future challenges: Balser

Borrowing from the popular “IGBOK” (It's Gonna Be OK) bumper sticker, Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., vice chancellor for Health Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, summarized his address at the summer Clinical Enterprise Leadership Assembly on Tuesday with a simple phrase: “Vanderbilt’s Gonna Be OK.” MORE >>

Initiative enhances security of clinical workstation computers

Web monitoring and filtering systems have been installed on all of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s 6,200-plus Clinical Workstation (CWS) computers to help protect the integrity and confidentiality of information that is stored on these computers. MORE >>

State report shows Vanderbilt achieving low rates of central line-associated infections

Intensive care units at Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are achieving exceptionally low rates of central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI), according to a report released this week by the Tennessee Department of Health. MORE >>

Meeting explores PREDICT's vast potential

Since it was launched two years ago, a clinical decision-support program developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has tested more than 7,800 patients for genetic variations that affect responses to several commonly prescribed drugs. MORE >>

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