All Posts: ICBI

• 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

• Madhavan Touts GUMC’s Commitment to Data Science and Informatics at Symposium

  (November 3, 2018) — In front of an audience steeped with big data professionals, Subha Madhavan, PhD, beamed as she announced Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC)’s new investment in digital health and scientific big data — the new Office of Health Data Science and Informatics (OHDSI). The announcement provided momentum for the Seventh Annual Big […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: big data, biomedical informatics, biomedical research, ICBI

• As Medicine Gets More Precise, Complexities Mount

  Doctors Speak Out (December 06, 2013) — Once regarded as the “medicine of science fiction,” the idea of being able to personalize health care based on a person’s individual characteristics is now

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Georgetown method, ICBI, immunotherapy, precision medicine