The Biomedical Informatics Graduate Degree Program grew out of the confluence of a number of projects at the University of Nebraska and The Medical Center. Some of the highlights are listed below.

• 1970's James Campbell, MD leads installation of Costar medical record system

• 1980's UNMC teams up with Phamis to co-develop the Phamis - Lastword EMR

• 1997 Phamis acquired by IDX leading to a long and fruitful development relationship with UNMC

• 2001 Dr. Windle leads informatics committee at UNMC

• 2001 Dr. Campbell leads a UNMC team to work with IDX, Stanford Medical Informatics, Intermountain healthcare, Mayo Clinic, and Apelon to participate in a NIST funded 4 year project to develop shared clinical decision support tools forth integration of best practice guidelines into clinical care.

• 2004 Dr. Windle leads UNMC Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems Grant (IAIMS)

• 2005 Dr. McClay establishes the Clinical Informatics degree track within the Medical Sciences Interdisciplinary Area (MSIA)

• 2006 General Electric acquires IDX changing the name of the EHR to CareCast.

• 2010  Dr. Guda was hired from the State University of New York as a tenured Associate Professor and the inaugural Director of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core (BSBC)

• 2011 The UNMC Clinical Partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, chooses to move from IGE CareCast to Epic

• 2011 BSBC becomes an NRI (Nebraska Research Initiative) subsidized Core, which currently servers over 80 independent PIs to support research and training activities in Bioinformatics

• 2012 Live with Epic, UNMC informatics works closely with Epic. Dr. McClay and Dr. Campbell become certified Epic builders

• 2012  Dr. Guda hires four Ph.D. Students in Bioinformatics under the MSIA program, who were later transferred to the Bioinformatics track of the BMI graduate program upon it’s approval in 2013

• 2013 Led by Dr. McClay, the Regents of the University of Nebraska approve a joint degree program in Biomedical Informatics with UNMC and University of Nebraska Omaha

• 2013 Dr. McClay leads UNMC team participating in the Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC) lead by Dr. Russ Waitman at KUMC. The GPC is a PCORI funded Clinical Data Research Network intending to re-invent clinical research into a turn-key solution to transform medicine from an art into an information science.

• 2014  Dr. Guda leads the Bioinformatics Core of the NIH-funded Nebraska INBRE project

• 2015  Led by Dr. Guda UNMC partners with IBM Watson Genomics to test the genomic profiles tumors from cancer patients

• 2015  Dr. Guda leads the Bioinformatics Core of the NIH-funded Cancer Center Support Grant