We have established a community of CCOM Informaticists who are applying these skills in their work at UIHC and collaborative research on campus. You are invited to join us with presentations, journal clubs, and other activities. Previous meeting information and links to recorded presentations may be found here.
Biomedical and Health Informatics Community Meeting
September 10, 2026 | 12:00-1:00 pm CST | via Zoom (campus colleagues may request the link)
Presentation: Clinical Decision Support - An Improvement Science and Human Factors Based Approach
Julia Yarahuan, MD, MBI
Medical Director of Clinical Decision Support
Pediatric Hospitalist | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Assistant Professor | Dept. of Pediatrics | Emory University
Swaminathan Kandaswamy, PhD, FAMIA
Assistant Professor, Director of Human Factors in Information System Design
Dept. of Pediatrics | Emory University
Join us for our next seminar with Julia Yarahuan, MD, MBI, and Swaminathan Kandaswamy, PhD, FAMI, pediatric research leaders from Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). Dr. Yarahuan is the Medical Director of Clinical Decision Support at CHOA and an Assistant Professor in Emory's Department of Pediatrics, while Dr. Kandaswamy serves as Director of Human Factors in Information System Design at Emory. Their combined expertise spans clinical decision support, human-centered design, and biomedical informatics.
Through their collaborative work, they have discovered that Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is everywhere, but not all CDS is effective.
Their presentation will examine how human factors, engineering, usability testing, and continuous evaluation can transform CDS from a source of alert fatigue into a tool that supports better decisions, better workflows, and better patient care.
We hope you can join us and learn how healthcare organizations can apply a practical framework to maximize the value of CDS.
The Clinical Informatics Journal Club, also hosted by Dr. Lindsey Knake, is incorporated into the clinical informatics lectures. For more information, please contact clinical informatics.
Announcements
Upcoming Conferences
Upcoming Biomedical and Health Informatics Seminars
- October 8, 2026 - Margaret Ochocinska (NIH)
- December 10, 2026 Anna Schmitz
If you are interested to present your research at future meetings in 2027, please contact Lindsey Knake or Marian Carson.
Program Director
Lindsey Knake, MD, MS
Director, Biomedical & Health Informatics Development
lindsey-knake@uiowa.edu
(319) 353-6368