Homer R. Warner

Homer R. Warner is one of the Fathers of Medical Informatics. [http://www.uita.org/halloffame/homerwarner.htm Hall of Fame of Utah Technology Council, retrieved March 17 2008] ]

He has pioneered many aspects of computer applications to medicine. Author of the book, Computer-Assisted Medical Decision-Making, published in 1979, served as CIO for the U’s Health Sciences Center, as president of the American College of Medical Informatics (where an award has been created in his honor), and was actively involved with the National Institutes of Health.

Teaching and research at University of Utah

On 1964 Dr. Homer R. Warner and his associates formally taught computer applications to medicine at the University of Utah in the Department of Biophysics and Bioengineering in the School of Engineering. In 1972, the department was split in two and Dr. Warner directed one of the splits: the Department of Medical Biophysics and Computing in the School of Medicine [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=61389 department of medical informatics at University of Utah] ] .

The department is internationally recognized for its contributions to computer applications in clinical care, medical education, and research. The mission of the department is to improve health care outcomes through information systems in both the private and public sectors of the health care industry.

Much of the department's success is directly attributable to Dr. Warner's accomplishments. The department has produced the largest group of medical informatics professionals educated at any institution in the United States.

He was First chair of the Department of Medical Informatics. University of Utah was the first medical school in the U.S. to formally organize a degree in medical informatics.

Homer R. Warner award

The award was created by the Object Management Group (OMG), self described as "an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium" [ [http://www.omg.org/ Object Management Group website] , retrieved March 17 2008] [ [http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/software-services-applications-information/6539339-1.html The Homer R. Warner Healthcare Interoperability Award;Call for Nominees.] ] .

It includes a $1000 prize, and is presented each year at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). It's named for Dr. Homer R. Warner, a pioneer in the field of Informatics and the founder of the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Utah. It is awarded for the paper that best describes approaches to improving computerized information acquisition, knowledge data acquisition and management, and experimental results documenting the value of theses approaches. [http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=1835 The Reporter: Miller, Sanders receive award] , retrieved March 17 2008]

Recipients

* Dr. Peter Elkin for outstanding contribution to the field of Medical Informatics. [ [http://www.v-chi.dk/HFEinHI2007/index.php?page=people Human Factors Engineering in HEALTH INFORMATICS] Presentation of the members of the Scientific Program Committee and the presenters at the second conference on Human Factors Engineering and Usability for Healthcare Information Technology Applications]

* Dr. Randolph A. Miller, professor and chair of Biomedical Informatics, and David Sanders, research fellow in Biomedical Informatics, on November 2001.

Dr. Warner served as director of the cardiovascular laboratory at LDS Hospital from 1954 to 1970 and was honored as Physician of the Year in 1985.

In 1988, he was elected to senior membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. New members are chosen for major contributions to health and medicine as well as from related fields.

For over 25 years, Dr. Warner has served almost continuously on research review groups for the National Institutes of Health, the National Center for Health Services Research and the National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Warner received his Bachelor’s and Medical Degree from the University of Utah and his PhD. in Physiology from the University of Minnesota.

Awards

Morris F. Collen Award [ [http://www.jamia.org/cgi/content/citation/2/2/137 Presentation of the Morris F. Collen Award to Homer R. Warner, MD, PhD: "why not? Let's do it!"] , retrieved March 17 2008] .

Bibliography

Some relevant books listed at Oregon Health & Science University (OSHU) library:
* [http://ohsucr11.ohsu.edu:2082/search?/XHomer+R.+Warner&searchscope=8&SORT=D/XHomer+R.+Warner&searchscope=8&SORT=D&SUBKEY=Homer%20R.%20Warner/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=XHomer+R.+Warner&searchscope=8&SORT=D&1%2C1%2C Knowledge engineering in health informatics] Homer R. Warner, Dean K. Sorenson, Omar Bouhaddou. New York : Springer, c1997.
* [http://ohsucr11.ohsu.edu:2082/search?/XHomer+R.+Warner&searchscope=8&SORT=D/XHomer+R.+Warner&searchscope=8&SORT=D&SUBKEY=Homer%20R.%20Warner/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=XHomer+R.+Warner&searchscope=8&SORT=D&2%2C2%2C Computer-assisted medical decision-making] Homer R. Warner. Imprint New York : Academic Press, 1979.

Papers published at Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association [http://www.jamia.org/cgi/search?sendit=Search&pubdate_year=&volume=&firstpage=&DOI=&author1=Homer+R.+Warner&author2=&title=&andorexacttitle=and&titleabstract=&andorexacttitleabs=and&fulltext=&andorexactfulltext=and&resourcetype=1%2C10&fmonth=Jan&fyear=1994&tmonth=Mar&tyear=2008&fdatedef=1+January+1994&tdatedef=1+March+2008&hits=10&sortspec=relevance]

* "Medical informatics: a real discipline?" HR Warner. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1995;2(4):207-214.
* "An event model of medical information representation", SM Huff, RA Rocha, BE Bray, HR Warner, and PJ Haug. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1995;2(2):116-134.

To illustrate his contribution to informatics applied to medicine, on the patent called "Rules-based patient care system for use in healthcare locations" issued on January 1 2008 the references list includes seven works where he has collaborated. [ [http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7315825.html United States Patent 7315825] Rules-based patient care system for use in healthcare locations, retrieved March 17 2008]

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