All Posts: data science

• Health Informatics and Data Science Symposium Goes Virtual

  (September 18, 2020) — For the ninth consecutive year, the Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics (ICBI) will host the Health Informatics & Data Science Symposium. As in previous years, the event provides an opportunity for thought leaders in the fields of precision and molecular medicine, health data analytics and bioinformatics to come together, learn and […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: big data, data science, Health Informatics & Data Science Symposium, ICBI

• Automated COVID-19 Research Tracking Tool Wins International Data Challenge

  Competition Recognizes Six Tools that Visualize Critical Virus-Related Findings WASHINGTON (May 15, 2020) — A new online tool that gathers and organizes COVID-19 research and trending conversations about virus-related research was recognized as the winning professional entry to the COVID-19 Data Challenge from the Pandemic Data Room. The Data Challenge was led by QED Group […]

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, big data, coronavirus, COVID-19, data science, ICBI

• Teaching Health Informatics and Its Ethical Implications

  (March 1, 2019) — In 2025 — just six years from now — the amount of information generated in the field of genomics alone will equal a zettabyte. Known as a ZB, a zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data. Put another way, it has been estimated that 1 ZB […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical informatics, data science, health information technology, ICBI

• Georgetown University Medical Center Names Subha Madhavan As Chief Data Scientist

  Georgetown University Medical Center has named Subha Madhavan, PhD, as its Chief Data Scientist and director of its newly established Office for Health Data Science and Informatics.

  Category: News Release Tags: big data, biomedical research, data science, School of Medicine