Electronic Medical Records at Columbia University 2025

Over the last decade, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) systems have been increasingly implemented at US hospitals. Huge amounts of longitudinal and detailed patient information, including lab tests, medications, disease status, and treatment outcome, have been accumulated and are available electronically. Extensive effort has been dedicated to developing advanced clinical data processing and data management in order to integrate patient data into a computable collection of rich longitudinal patient profiles. EMR/EHRs provide unprecedented opportunities for cohort-wide investigations and knowledge discovery. They are important data resources for building predictive models for disease diagnosis and prognosis, thus enabling personalized medicine.

Despite the great potential, analyzing such large, scattered and heterogeneous observational patient data is still technically challenging. This two-day intensive workshop will go over opportunities and potentials of EMR/EHR for health and medical studies, statistical challenges and pitfalls for analyzing EMR/EHR, and the latest developments of multiple techniques to address those challenges, followed by hands-on computer lab sessions and case studies to put concepts into practice.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirments
• Interview Process
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineJuly 30, 2025
• Study LevelTraining
• SponsorColumbia University
• City to studyNew York

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Benefits

By the end of the electronic medical records training, participants will be familiar with the following topics:

• Power and potentials of EMR/EHR data
• Open-access datasets across the world
• Preparation, transformation and integration of EMR/EHR
• Confounding, bias and missing data in EMR/EHR and statistical methods addressing these challenges
• Statistical methods for comparative effectiveness
• Statistical methods for predictive analysis

Requirements

Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage trainees and early-stage investigators to participate. There are four requirements to attend this training:

1. Each participant must have an introductory background in statistics.
2. Each participant must be familiar with R.
3. Each participant must have a laptop/computer with latest versions of R and R-Studio downloaded and installed prior to the first day of the workshop. R and R-Studio are available for free download and installation on Mac, PC, and Linux devices.
4. Each participant will be required to apply for access to MIMIC-III data, requiring completion of specific HIPAA training to receive credentials.

Interview Dates and Process

Summer 2025: The EMR Boot Camp is a livestream, remote training that takes place over live, online video on June 30-July 1, 2025 from 10am EDT - ~5:30pm EDT. Please note this training is not a self-paced, pre-recorded online training.

Application Deadline

How To Apply

For more details visit Columbia University Training Webpage