On November 16, 2014, in Bethesda, MD, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) honored Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, FAAN, with the Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics. The award was presented during AMIA's Annual Symposium, November 15 to 19, 2014, held in Washington, DC.
"AMIA's Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics demonstrates our highest recognition for members advocating for biomedical and health informatics in the public policy arena," said AMIA chair, Board of Directors, Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, FACMI, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "Judy Murphy's tenure at ONC and her 25 years at Aurora Health Care, where she managed their achievement of EHR Meaningful Use, exemplify the expertise, passion and spirit that Dr. Detmer has for health policy."
The prestigious award was bestowed upon Murphy, chief nursing officer and director, Global Business Services at IBM Healthcare. Murphy works to advance the vision of using health IT to improve healthcare, lower costs, and promote consumers' greater understanding and use of health IT for their own health. She has a long-standing reputation of patient advocacy and maintaining a "patient-centric" point of view. She was previously chief nursing officer and director of the Office of Clinical Quality and Safety at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Department of Health and Human Services, and prior to that, vice president-Electronic Health Record Applications at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, where she led their EHR program.
This award recognizes significant contributions exemplifying the expertise, passion, and spirit that Dr Detmer has for health policy. Recipients of this award demonstrate commitment to AMIA through membership and support of the organization's mission by acting as a strong advocate for biomedical and health informatics in the public policy arena.
About AMIA: AMIA is the leading professional association for the field of informatics and is the center of action for 4000 informatics professionals from more than 65 countries. As the voice of the nation's top biomedical and health informatics professionals, AMIA and its members play a leading role in assessing the effect of health innovations on health policy and advancing the field of informatics. The association actively supports five domains in informatics: translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, consumer health informatics, and public health informatics.
The AMIA Annual Symposium presents leading-edge scientific research on biomedical and health informatics and more than 100 scientific sessions across the spectrum of the informatics field.
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International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization Honors Anne Casey, MSc, FRCN
Anne Casey, MSc, FRCN was awarded the 2014 International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization's (IHTSDO) Lifetime Achievement Award at the IHTSDO Awards dinner in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on October 28, 2014. The Lifetime Achievement Award was established in 2010 for the purpose of recognizing individuals for sustained, outstanding contributions in the development or promotion of SNOMED CT and for global leadership in the terminology field. Anne is the third recipient and first nurse to receive this award.
Anne Casey was nominated because of her exemplary content work, strong support for standards development and implementation, consummate leadership, passion for education, and enthusiasm about health and healthcare.
Anne became formally involved in terminology work in 1992 during her role as senior coding consultant and then director of implementation at the UK NHS Centre for Coding and Classification (NHS CCC), where she led a 2-year, UK-wide project to develop nursing content within Read Codes. Anne was also one of the original UK representatives to the CAP SNOMED International Editorial Board, overseeing the merger that resulted in SNOMED CT and leading the integration of nursing-relevant Read Codes content into SNOMED CT. Her work was instrumental in the development of the plans to create, enhance, nurture, and maintain global nursing concepts in an organized, understandable, useful, and reproducible editorial process environment, thereby laying firm foundations for meaningful national and international comparisons.
Anne believes strongly in the standards development process. In her substantive role of Information Standards Advisor to the UK Royal College of Nursing, she represented nursing on several national and international standards forums, including the NHS Information Standards Board, and actively promoted the adoption and use of SNOMED CT to support UK nursing practice. She was a prominent and active member of CEN TC251 WG2 and ISO TC215 WG 3, both of which deal with semantic content, helping as Principal UK Expert to drive through a range of international standards, such as CONTSYS. Most recently, she led an international team in the revision of ISO 18104-Categorical Structures for Representation of Nursing Diagnoses and Nursing Actions in Terminological Systems. This standard now underpins all international nursing terminology models.
Anne is a natural leader, having assumed leadership positions in a wide variety of international organizations, including the Association of Common European Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes-ACENDIO (chair of Standards Working Group and Honorary Secretary), the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Special Interest Group, and the SNOMED CT International Editorial Board. She was a member of the IHTSDO's first Content Committee, a place where significant clinical content issues were raised and resolved. She was the second chair of the IHTSDO Nursing SIG, providing the bridge between the US/UK partnership to the International IHTSDO environment. Her dedication and organizational skills kept these committees very active, getting lots of work done and understanding which issues were current, resolved, or needed future consideration.
Anne is passionate about education. She created a wide variety of terminology "primers" focused on simple terminology concepts, including the basic understanding SNOMED CT courses. These educational offerings were phenomenal tools to use with new member countries and non-English-speaking providers. She was the first chair of the IHTSDO education SIG, providing leadership in the development of official IHTSDO curricula for various users of SNOMED CT. In addition, she was an excellent speaker and shared her knowledge at podiums all over the world.
Perhaps what was most appreciated about Anne was her focus on making sure that the nonterminologist healthcare providers understood the importance of representing their practice via standardized documentation supported by common terms. She was known for promoting multidisciplinary views of the terminology, including medicine, nursing, and a wide variety of ancillary professionals. Outside terminology work, Anne has made a no less substantial contribution to national and international clinical practice and healthcare policy related to the care of sick children.
Anne is very deserving of the IHTSDO Lifetime Achievement award because of the outstanding and significant contributions she has made to the development and evolution of SNOMED CT and to IHTSDO as well as to wider healthcare worldwide.
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International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization Honors Judith Warren, PhD, RN, FACMI, FAAN
Judith Warren, PhD, RN, FACMI, FAAN, was awarded the 2014 International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization's (IHTSDO) Award of Excellence at the IHTSDO Awards dinner in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on October 28, 2014. The Award of Excellence was established in 2008 for the purpose of recognizing an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the improvement of SNOMED CT and/or its successful implementation in any aspect of health and social care across the world. Judy is the first US nurse to receive this award.
Dr Warren became involved with SNOMED in 1995, when the American Nurses Association (ANA) appointed her as the official ANA liaison to the SNOMED Editorial Board. Judy served as an expert advisor for the mapping of the ANA's approved nursing nomenclatures to SNOMED. Her terminology experience and guidance enhanced nursing knowledge and enabled the ability to query SNOMED CT for nurse-sensitive data and patient care outcomes with other national and international organizations. She is one of the primary developers of the nursing problem subset of SNOMED CT, which is freely available on the National Library of medicine Web site.
At the international level, Dr Warren has been an elected member of an IHTSDO Standing Committee since its inception, first on the Quality Assurance Committee and currently on the Content Committee. She has advocated for the adoption and implementation of SNOMED CT in both national and international venues by sharing her expertise across the globe at meetings and international conferences including Brazil, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, and others. Dr Warren is an advocate for the patient, a role model for informaticians, and a diligent promoter of IHTSDO and SNOMED CT for use in creating policy and tools to implement the highest quality and safest patient care for the lowest cost. She is dedicated to integrating terminologies in a manner that facilitates data reuse and, in particular, examines and furthers contributions to patient care outcomes.
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