Lecture
Update on selected issues facing International Health
Information Infrastructures
and Researchers in Biomedical Informatics
Speaker: |
Don
E. Detmer, MD MA, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Medical Informatics Association |
Date: |
Tuesday, 11 July 2006 |
Time: |
15:00-16:30 |
Location: |
"Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete |
Host: |
Dr. Angelina Kouroubali, Biomedical Informatics Laboratory |
| Abstract: |
The speaker will review findings
from two recent personal research efforts. The first study explored
the status of national health information infrastructures in English
speaking nations and examined similarities and differences. The
second study was a survey of AMIA and American College of Medical
Informatics members regarding top biomedical research topics.
An overview and a description of major findings will be presented. |
| Bio: |
Don E. Detmer, MD MA, is
President and Chief Executive Officer, American Medical Informatics
Association. He is also Professor of Medical Education in the
Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia,
Senior Associate of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge,
and Visiting Professor at CHIME, University College of London.
Don is 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 chairs the board of MedBiquitous, an educational
standard setting organization, and also co-chairs the Blue Ridge
Academic Health Group, a policy group of academic health center
leaders. Recently, he helped create a report for the Office of the US National Coordinator on Health Information Technology on a national framework for clinical decision support and also served as a Trustee of the Nuffield Trust in London. 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. Don chaired the 1991 IOM study, “The Computer-based Patient Record” and co-edited the 1997 version of the same report. He was a member of the committee that developed the IOM Reports, ‘To Error is Human’ and “Crossing the Quality Chasm.” 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, he 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. His 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. His coordinates are 301 657-1291, fax 301 657-1296, and e-mails - detmer@amia.org or detmer@virginia.edu |
