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Don E. Detmer | |
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| Born | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Kansas Medical Center |
| Known for | Medical Informatics, Health informatics, electronic health records |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | National health information policy, quality improvement, administrative medicine, medical informatics |
| Institutions | American Medical Informatics Association, University of Virginia |
Don E. Detmer is professor emeritus and professor of medical education at the University of Virginia.
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 to 2003 he was the Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management at Cambridge University and is a lifetime member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge. From 2005 to 2015 he was visiting professor, Centre for Health Informatics and Multi-professional Education, University College London.
Considered to be a mover of the US National Health Information Infrastructure, 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. He served as medical director for advocacy and health policy of the American College of Surgeons from 2011 to 2013. In 2014, he was director of advanced inter-professional informatics certification of AMIA. Currently, he serves on the boards of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, the University of Virginia Colonnade Club, and the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center.
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.
Detmer'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.
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 founded the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group and co-chaired it through 2011. He chairs the board 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.
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] In 2013 he stepped down from his position as the inaugural Medical Director for Advocacy and Health Policy of the American College of Surgeons.
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