Lori Gresham, informatics project manager for the HEALing Communities Study to reduce opioid deaths, was presented with a congratulatory collection of CCTS-related items.

Jeffrey Talbert, PhD, associate director of the CCTS, interim director of CCTS Biomedical Informatics Core, and director of the UK Institute for Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, presented his research at the Annual RX Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in D.C.

The conference focused on the science of health policy and systems change as strategies for population-level health improvement. Researchers, clinicians, students, community partners, and local and national experts gathered Monday, April 15th to share findings, disseminate best practices, and catalyze collaborations.

The ACT Network provides a real-time, open-access, no-cost platform for researchers throughout the CTSA consortium to explore and validate feasibility for clinical studies using aggregated electronic health record data from over 100 million patients nationwide.

The new Institute for Biomedical Informatics is leading the effort to translate big data into actionable information and leverage the latest technologies to advance biomedical sciences.

Though technology has made health care better, it has also fostered new challenges for the people who are responsible for delivering it. Big data is seen as a strategic asset with enormous opportunity to inform policy and change the way patients are treated.

GQ Zhang, Ph.D., will join UK as director of the Institute of Biomedical Informatics. He will also serve as chief of the newly established biomedical informatics division in the UK College of Medicine and co-director of the biomedical informatics core of the CCTS

The CCTS Biomedical Informatics Core is offering a new self-service informatics tool that lets researchers search UK HealthCare data to generate hypotheses and estimate cohorts available for clinical research studies.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently named the University of Kentucky School of Human Environmental Sciences a national coordinating center for excellence in nutrition education and obesity prevention research.

A multidisciplinary team of doctors, researchers, and informaticists at the University of Kentucky is working to improve identification of lung cancer patients who are eligible to participate in clinical trials for novel treatments.