Homer Richards Warner | |
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Born |
Salt Lake City, United States |
April 18, 1922
Died | November 30, 2012 Salt Lake City, United States |
(aged 90)
Cause of death | Pancreatitis |
Education |
University of Utah (B.S., M.D.) University of Minnesota (Ph.D.) |
Known for | Medical informatics |
Spouse(s) | Katherine Anne Romney (died 2007) Jean Okland (died 2011) June Okland |
Children | Homer Warner III, Stephen Warner and Willard Warner, daughters, Kathy Black, Ann Bradley and Jodi Wagner |
Parent(s) | Homer Warner |
Homer Richards Warner (April 18, 1922 - November 30, 2012) was an American cardiologist who was an early proponent of medical informatics who pioneered many aspects of computer applications to medicine. Author of the book, Computer-Assisted Medical Decision-Making, published in 1979, he served as CIO for the University of Utah 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. He was first chair of the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, the first American medical program to formally offer a degree in medical informatics.
Dr. Warner was also a senior member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and president of the American College of Medical Informatics. For over 25 years, Dr. Warner 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.
He was born in Salt Lake City on April 18, 1922. He joined the United States Navy during World War II and was trained as a pilot but never saw combat.
Warner received his B.S. in 1946 from the University of Utah. He received his M.D., also from the University of Utah, in 1949. By 1953 he had worked at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and had earned a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Minnesota.
Beginning in the mid-1950s, Dr. Warner began his work using computers for decision support in cardiology at LDS Hospital (now Intermountain Healthcare) in Salt Lake City. This ground-breaking work set the stage for the growth of the new field of academic study called medical informatics. In the 1970s, Dr. Warner and his LDS Hospital colleagues created one of the nation’s first versions of an electronic medical record. Designed to assist clinicians in decision-making, Intermountain’s now famous HELP system has been operational for nearly 40 years.