Big Data

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System Grading Doctors Is Inefficient, Needs Revisions

New Research from Jun Li

A system created to grade doctors and empower patients to make better decisions falls short of its goal of providing information useful to consumers, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers.

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Electronic Health Records May Compromise Safety for Chemotherapy Patients

New Research from Christopher Friese and Minal Patel

Electronic health records were supposed to streamline patient information, but in the decade since inception, health workers claim they have compromised patient care and complicated their jobs. A recent University of Michigan study confirms earlier research about EHRs' shortcomings—this time in the highly complex outpatient chemotherapy setting.

Mining Social Media

Mining Social Media for Community Health

New Research from the Health Informatics Program

Tiffany Veinot sees great potential for technology to improve the health of populations everywhere. As director of the University of Michigan’s Master of Health Informatics program, a partnership of the School of Public Health, the School of Information, and the School of Medicine’s Department of Learning Health Sciences, Veinot leads a cross-campus educational initiative bringing technology to bear on human health outcomes.

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Bhramar Mukherjee at the Forefront of Big Data

Bhramar Mukherjee was recently named chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. Mukherjee spoke with Global Michigan about balancing research and being a single parent and her passion for math and big data.