DBHi News & Announcements

In this week’s roundup, learn about new findings in obesity and vitamin D, predicting early sepsis, and mitochondrial disorders.

Automated programs can identify which sick infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) have sepsis hours before clinicians recognize the life-threatening condition. A team of data researchers and physician-scientists tested machine-learning models in a NICU population,…

An ambitious project is under way to create a holistic picture of pediatric health and disease by building a one-of-its-kind library based on all of the data generated at CHOP.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is one of 11 recipients of a $40 million, five-year grant that supports faculty development in patient-centered outcomes research achieved through learning health systems (LHS).

Research platform makes large-scale data on childhood cancer and birth defects available to researchers, clinicians and patients within a cloud-based environment

From button batteries to distracted driving, research meets real-world application in this week's news roundup.

A scientist in Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's (CHOP) Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi) and the Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics developed a new software tool that rapidly extracts phenotype information from…

On Rare Disease Day, a guest blogger discusses the lack of high quality biospecimens for research and how our experts are working to change that.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) today joins with other research leaders in celebrating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of Spark Therapeutics’ innovative gene therapy for the treatment of a rare, inherited form of retinal blindness.

Working in primary care practice six years ago, Saba Khan, MD, medical irector of our Healthy Weight Program, met a young man who described his hunger as a belly pain that wouldn't go away.