Don E. Detmer

Don E. Detmer
Born
Residence	Virginia, USA
Fields	National health information policy, quality improvement, administrative medicine, medical informatics
Institutions	American Medical Informatics Association, University of Virginia
Alma mater	University of Kansas Medical Center
Known for	Medical Informatics, Health informatics, electronic health records

Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, FACS, is Medical Director for Advocacy and Health Policy of the American College of Surgeons. He is also Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia and Visiting Professor at CHIME, University College of London.

Biography and career

Don Detmer chaired the 1991 study, "The Computer-based Patient Record".[1] He was a member of the committee that developed the IOM Reports, "To Err is Human"[2] and "Crossing the Quality Chasm."[3] From 1999-2003 he was the Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at Cambridge University and is a lifetime member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge.

Considered to be a mover of the US National Health Information Infrastructure, Dr. Detmer has also been a consultant to the government of England and the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong. Prior to the years in England, he was Vice President for Health Sciences at the Universities of Virginia and Utah. While at Virginia he led implementation of a physician order entry system and was principal investigator of its IAIMS grant. While at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he developed the nation’s first Administrative Medicine Program, a Master’s degree program for clinician-executives. As a surgeon, he was instrumental in the adoption and development of ambulatory surgery in the early 1970s and was team physician for the Wisconsin Badgers for ten years while also serving as President of the Medical Staff. He won a UW–Madison Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Detmer was appointed as President and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association in 2004 until 2009 when he became Senior Advisor to AMIA until 2011.

Detmer's education includes a medical degree from the University of Kansas with subsequent training at the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, the Institute of Medicine, and Harvard Business School. His MA is from the University of Cambridge.

Don's research interests include national health information policy, quality improvement, administrative medicine, vascular surgery, sports medicine, and management of academic health centers. He has written and edited a number of research articles, books, book chapters, and monographs on these topics. He enjoys grandchildren, horse riding, fly-fishing, reading biographies, and various crafts.

Advisory Activities

Don Detmer is a former trustee of the Nuffield Trust, a member of the Institute of Medicine as well as a lifetime Associate of the US National Academies, a fellow of AAAS, and the American Colleges of Medical Informatics, Sports Medicine, and Surgeons. He co-chairs the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group. He is also chairman of Medbiquitous. He was on the steering committee of a policy report for the Office of the National Coordinator on Health Information Technology to create a national framework for clinical decision support.

Dr. Detmer is past chairman of the Board on Health Care Services of the IOM, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. He was a Commissioner on the Commission on Systemic Interoperability.[4]

Awards and honors

• Walsh McDermott Medal, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC, 2009
• Inaugural recipient, Don Eugene Detmer Signature Award in Health Policy Contributions in Informatics, AMIA, 2008
• National Associate, National Academies, Washington, DC, 2002
• Medal of Respect from Mongolian State University, Ulan Bator, 2001
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998
• President's Award, American Medical Informatics Association, 1996, 1998
• Distinguished Alumnus, Duke University Medical Alumni Association

Publications

Books

• Dick, Richard; Detmer, Don E.; Steen, Elaine B. (eds.) (1997). The Computer-Based Patient Record. Washington: National Academy Press. ISBN 0309055326.  [5]
• Lohr, Kathleen; Vanselow, Neal A.; Detmer, Don E. (eds.) (1996). The Nation's Physician Workforce: Options for Balancing Supply and Requirements. Washington: National Academy Press. ISBN 0309054311.  [6]
• Detmer, Don E.; Steen, Elaine B. (eds.) (2005). The Academic Health Center: Leadership and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521827183.  [7]

Reports

• Detmer D, Steen E. Learning from abroad: lessons and questions on personal health records for national policy. AARP. Mar 2006.[8]

Journal Articles

• Google Scholar publications
• Medline (Pubmed) publications

References

• http://aspe.hhs.gov/sp/nhii/Conference03/DetmerBio.htm
• http://www.amia.org/inside/leadership/boardbios.asp#Detmer

External links

• American Medical Informatics Association
• Medbiquitous

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