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Informatics research center opens
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Feb. 28, 2011
Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City announced that it has opened a research center to support its work in clinical informatics.
The Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research was named after medical informatics pioneer Homer Warner, MD, PhD, chair emeritus of the University of Utah's medical informatics department. Dr. Warner started using computers in the 1950s for decision support in cardiology. In the 1970s, he and his colleagues developed one of the nation's first versions of an electronic medical record. His work set the stage for what would become the medical informatics field.
The new center, which opened Feb. 16 in Salt Lake City, will employ 60 full-time informatics specialists. It expects to employ more than 100 employees in the next 10 years.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2011/02/28/bibf0228.htm.
