Data collection: home edition
As a new wave of devices and smartphone apps popularize the idea of “the quantified self,” UChicago Medicine physicians are finding inventive ways to use these new data streams to improve patient care. [Read More]
Articles by Rob Mitchum
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A statistical crystal ball
Since the transition to electronic records, UChicago Medicine has ensured that the data collected will benefit both current and future patients, fueling research efforts to improve care. [Read More]
Special agents to help speed research
A solution to speed research by scientists at the Computation Institute looks to a method used regularly by films and video games: agent-based simulation. [Read More]
Scaling up cancer research
The University of Chicago is at the epicenter of the search for new cancer targets and therapies in the massive — and rapidly growing — data of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). [Read More]
Data-driven medicine
Parallel to the tech industry, scientists are using new ways of working with data to develop personalized therapies for cancer and sepsis, and prevent cardiac arrests and disease outbreaks. [Read More]
Keep It Long: Most Science Writing Advice Flops, Analysis Finds
Scientists are often told to keep the abstracts for their journal articles short and sweet, but new analysis by University of Chicago researchers finds that these are cited less than their long, flowery, and jargon-filled peers. [Read More]
Supercomputer model helps explain electrical shock
Researchers at the Computation Institute are using the Beagle supercomputer to understand the harmful effects to the body from electrical shocks. [Read More]
A Better Beagle: $2 Million Upgrade to UChicago Supercomputer Will Boost Biomedical Research
A grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable the next wave of pioneering discoveries for UChicago’s high-performance computing resource for biomedical research. [Read More]
Virtual Evaluation: Modeling the Ripples of Health Care Information
A collaboration between researchers at the Computation Institute and University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences will create a new, information-rich tool for assessing and refining health care innovations and policies. [Read More]
Election Day For Gene Variants
Scientists at UChicago's Computation Institute take a cue from the ballot box to find DNA variants associated with disease. [Read More]
