Helmuth Orthner

From Rutgers Medical Informatics History Project

Name: Dr. Helmuth F. Orthner

Elected ACMI Fellow: 1984

Years: 1941 Silz, Austria - 2009 Washington DC, USA

Degrees: BS HTI Innsbruck EPE 1962; MS TUM Munich, EC, 1966; PhD UPenn Biomedical Engineering, 1973

Professional Affiliations:

Professional Activities: One of the founders of SCAMC. Program Committee Chair, first SCAMC Symposium, 1977.

Honors and Awards:

Other Works:

Other Information:

Curriculum Vitae: Dr. Orthner's Curriculum Vitae (1999)

Selected Publications:

Untersuchungen zum Zusammenhang zwischen dem Maximalwert der Verstärkung und 
der oberen Grenzfrequenz in vielstufigen Breitwandverstärkern, Diplomarbeit (M.S. The- 
sis); Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Leiter: Prof. H. Marko); Technical University of Munich; 
West Germany, 1966 (mit Auszeichnung). 

Estimation of the Internal Impedance of Spontaneously Breathing Rats at Fixed Blood 
Gas Levels, F. Helmuth Orthner, Ph.D. Dissertation in Biomedical Engineering; Univ. of Penn- 
sylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May 1973. 

Transient Respiratory Response to Mechanical Loads at Fixed Blood Gas Levels in Rats, 
F. Helmuth Orthner, J.A.P. 36(3), 1974, pp. 280-287. 

The Internal Impedance of Spontaneously Breathing Rats at Clamped Chemical Drive, 
(abstract) F. Helmuth Orthner, Fed. Proc., 1974, 33(3); p. 419. 

Occlusion Pressure and Respiratory Rate at Clamped Chemical Drive and Various De- 
grees of Lung Inflation, (abstract) F. Helmuth Orthner, Fed. Proc. 1975, 34(3); p. 372. 

A Packet Switching Network for Minicomputers, F. Helmuth Orthner and David M. McKe- 
own, Jr., Proc. CompCon, 1975, IEEE Comp. Society Press, No. 75CHO988-6C, pp. 217-220.  

Proceedings of the First Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 
(ed.) F. Helmuth Orthner, 1977, IEEE Computer Society Press, No. 77CH1270-8C, pp. 1-373. 

Computer Laboratory for Health Care: Survey of the Workload of Thoracic Surgeons in 
1976 (Report for the American Board of Thoracic Surgery ad hoc Committee on Manpower), F. 
Helmuth Orthner, Department of Clinical Engineering, GWU Medical Center, Washington, 
DC. Funded by the Computer Technology Health Care Demonstration Program, Bureau of 
Health Professions, HRA, DHEW: No. 5 R01 MB00097, 1978, pp. 1-93. 

Computer Laboratory for Health Care: Follow-up Survey of the Workload of Thoracic 
Surgeons in 1976 (Report for the American Board of Thoracic Surgery ad hoc Committee on 
Manpower), F. Helmuth Orthner, Department of Clinical Engineering, GWU Medical Center, 
Washington, DC. Funded by the Computer Technology Health Care Demonstration Program, 
Bureau of Health Professions, HRA, DHEW: No. 5 R01 MB00097, 1978, pp. 1-46. 
Curriculum Vitae Helmuth F. Orthner   
 
A High-speed Packet Switching Network for Heterogeneous Minicomputers, F. Helmuth 
Orthner and Neal Pendelton, in Proc.: 1978 Workshop on Computer Laboratory Health Care 
Resources, (eds.) WB Jarzembski and BA Rowley; Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Com- 
puter Medicine, Texas Tech. Univ. School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX  29409, pp. 97-106. 

Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical 
Care, (ed.) F. Helmuth Orthner, 1978, IEEE Comp. Society Press, No. 78CH1413-4, pp. 1-667. 

Computer Support for Physicians' Office Practice: Introduction and Overview, Helmuth 
F. Orthner and William R. Felts, Proc. 3rd SCAMC, 1979, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, p. 708. 

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Manpower Survey for 1976: A Summary, Paul C. Ad- 
kins and Helmuth F. Orthner, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1979, Vol. 28 (5), pp. 407-412. 

Computer Laboratory for Health Care: Minicomputer Network Specifications, Helmuth 
F. Orthner, Department of Clinical Engineering, GWU Medical Center, Washington, DC; 
Computer Technology Health Care Demonstration Program, Bureau of Health Professions, 
HRA, DHEW: No. 5 R01 MB00097, 1980, pp. 1-208. 

Computer Laboratory for Health Care: Interactive Graphics Display System for the 
PDP8/e (Users Guide), Helmuth F. Orthner, Department of Clinical Engineering, GWU Medi- 
cal Center, Washington, DC. Comp. Technology Health Care Demonstration Program, Bureau 
of Health Prof., HRA, DHEW: No. 5 R01 MB00097, 1980, pp. 1-36. 

Computer Laboratory for Health Care: Interactive Graphic Display system for the 
PDP8/e (Programmer's Guide), Helmuth F. Orthner, Dept. of Clinical Engineering, GWU 
Medical Center, Washington, DC. Comp. Technology Health Care Demonstration Program, 
Bureau of Health Prof., HRA, DHEW: No. 5 R01 MB00097, 1980, pp. 1-15. 

Computer Laboratory for Health Care: Final Report, Helmuth F. Orthner, Department of 
Clinical Engineering, GWU Medical Center; Computer Technology Health Care Demo Pro- 
gram, Bureau of Health Professions, HRA, DHEW: No. 5 R01 MB00097, 1980, pp. 1-204. 

Course Evaluation and Survey System, James B. Kiesel and Helmuth F. Orthner, Proceed- 
ings of the 1981 MUMPS Users' Group Meeting, C. Robert Woickizer (ed.), MUMPS Users' 
Group, College Park, MD 20740, 1981, pp. 1-13. 

Scoring of Patient Management Problems, Helmuth F. Orthner and Arlis L. Acord, Proceed- 
ings of the 1981 MUMPS Users' Group Meeting, C. Robert Woickizer (ed.), MUMPS Users' 
Group, College Park, MD 20740, 1981, pp. 76-86. 

Computer Support for Scoring Written Examinations of Patient Management Problems, 
Helmuth F. Orthner and Arlis L. Acord, Proceedings of the 5th SCAMC Congress, Henry G. 
Heffernan (ed.), 1981, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 706-710. 

Computer Support for Scoring Written PMP Examinations, HF Orthner, TE Piemme, and 
AL Acord, Innovations in Medical Education Exhibits, GME, AAMC, 1981. 

Student Paper and Awards Competition, Helmuth F. Orthner, Proc. of the 5th SCAMC Con- 
gress, Henry G. Heffernan (ed.), 1981, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 1150-1155. 

Computer Support for Constructing Written Examinations of Patient Management 
Simulations, Helmuth F. Orthner and Arlis L. Acord, Proceedings of the 1982 MUMPS Users' 
Group Meeting, Glen L. Steinbach and Ruth E. Dayhoff (eds.), MUMPS Users' Group, College 
Park, MD 20740, 1982, pp. 96-99. 

Generator System for Written Examinations of Patient Management Simulations, Hel- 
muth F. Orthner and Arlis L. Acord, Proceedings of the 6th SCAMC Congress, Bruce I. Blum 
(ed.), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1982, pp. 126-130. 
Curriculum Vitae Helmuth F. Orthner   
 
Computer Systems in Medical Education, Helmuth F. Orthner, Proceedings of the 6th 
SCAMC Congress, Bruce I. Blum (ed.), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1982, pp. 1008-1010. 

Thoracic Surgery Manpower; The Third Manpower Study of Thoracic Surgery: 1980 
Report of the AD Hoc Committee on Manpower of The American Association for Tho- 
racic Surgery and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Richard J. Cleveland, Helmuth F. 
Orthner, et al., Journal of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, 1982, Vol. 84, pp. 921-932. 

Computer Support for Generating Written PMP Examinations, Helmuth F. Orthner, and 
Arlis L. Acord, (abstract), Proc. Innovations in Medical Education Exhibits, Group on Medical 
Education, Association of American Medical Colleges, 1982, pp. 64. 

Computer Support for Constructing and Scoring Patient Management Simulations, Tho- 
mas E. Piemme, Helmuth F. Orthner, and Arlis L. Acord, Proc. 4th World Conference on 
Medical Informatics, North Holland, Pt 2, 1983, pp. 895-898. 

Microprocessor Networks for Laboratory Medicine, Mario Werner and Helmuth F. Orthner, 
MEDINFO 83 Seminars, (ed.) O. Fokkens, North Holland, 1983, pp. 236-238. 

SCAMC Student Paper Competition focuses on Medical Informatics, Helmuth F. Orthner, 
MUG Quarterly, Vol. XIII, No. 3/4, 1984, pp. 66-67. 

Student Paper Competition focuses on Medical Informatics, Helmuth F. Orthner, Journal of 
Medical Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1984, pp. 213-216. 

MUMPS Users' Group Annual Report 1984, Helmuth F. Orthner, MUG Quarterly, Vol. 
XIV, No. 4, 1985, pp. 55-60. 

Management Support Office: ADP Based Management Information System (Final Re- 
port), Helmuth F. Orthner and Thomas E. Harries, Veterans Administration Contract No. VA 
101 (93) P-1004, 1985, pp. 1-115. 

The Student Paper Competition in Medical Informatics at the Symposium on Computer 
Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC), (guest editor) Helmuth F. Orthner and Larry C. 
Kingsland III, Comp. Meth. Progr. Biomed., 1985, Vol. 21(1), pp. vii-viii. 

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, 
(ed.) Helmuth F. Orthner, 1986, IEEE Computer Society Press, 86CH2341-6, pp. 1-424. 

Foreword, and Introduction, Helmuth F. Orthner, Proc. 10th SCAMC, 1986, IEEE Computer 
Soc. Press, 86CH2341-6, pp. v-x. 

Welcome, Helmuth F. Orthner, Final Program Brochure, 10th SCAMC, 1986, pp. 2-3. 

A Medical Informatics Thesaurus, Roy Rada, M.D., Ph.D., Edith Calhoun, Hafedh Mili, 
Sarah J. Singer, Bruce I. Blum, Helmuth F. Orthner, Ph.D. in MEDINFO 86: Proc. of the Fifth 
Conference on Medical Informatics, Washington, DC, USA, October 26-30, 1986, Elsevier 
Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland), Amsterdam, (c) IFIP-IMIA, 1986, pp. 1164-1172. 

A Vocabulary for Medical Informatics, Roy Rada, Bruce Blum, Edith Calhoun, Hafedh Mili, 
Helmuth Orthner, and Sara Singer, Comp. Biomed. Res., Vol. 20, 1987, pp. 244-263. 

Prof. Dr. med. Peter L. Reichertz (dedication), Helmuth F. Orthner and Daniel K. Harris, 
Computer Methods & Programs Biomedicine, 1987, Vol. 25(2), p. 69. 

The Tenth Anniversary of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care 
(SCAMC), Helmuth F. Orthner, Comp. Methods Progr. Biomed., 1987, Vol. 25(2), pp. 71-72. 

Ten Years of Medical Informatics, H. F. Orthner, Comp. Methods Progr. Biomed., 1987, Vol. 
25(2), pp. 73-86. 

Selected Papers from the Tenth SCAMC Congress, (ed.) Helmuth F. Orthner, Computer 
Methods and Programs in Biomedicine., 1987, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 69-242. 
Curriculum Vitae Helmuth F. Orthner   
  
Implementing Health Care Information Systems, (Eds.) Helmuth F. Orthner and Bruce I. 
Blum, Computers and Medicine Monograph Series, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1989, pp. 
1-438. 

Implementing Health Care Information Systems, Bruce I. Blum and Helmuth F. Orthner, in 
Implementing Health Care Information Systems, (eds.) Helmuth F. Orthner and Bruce I. Blum, 
Computers and Medicine Monograph Series, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1989, pp. 3-21. 

The MUMPS Programming Language, Bruce I. Blum and Helmuth F. Orthner, in Imple- 
menting Health Care Information Systems, (eds.) Helmuth F. Orthner and Bruce I. Blum, Com- 
puters and Medicine Monograph Series, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.1989, 396-420. 

New Communication Technologies for Hospital Information Systems, Helmuth F. Orthner, 
in Towards New Hospital Information Systems, A.R. Bakker, M.J. Ball, J.R. Scherrer, J.L. Wil- 
lems (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland) (c) IFIP-IMIA, 1988, pp. 203- 
212. 

Report: The Automated Medical Record, Helmuth F. Orthner, et al., Internal GWU Medical 
Center Report on the Status and Needs of Information Processing Technologies in the GWU 
Ambulatory Care Center, June 21, 1989, pp. 1-24. 

Report: Comments on Shared Medical Systems' Medical Record System, Helmuth F. 
Orthner, Internal GWUMC Site Visit Report on SMS, Inc. IBM mainframe-based Medical Re- 
cord System, July 21, 1989, pp. 1-12. 

Reports: Participation of NLM Trainees in SCAMC or MEDINFO: Summary, by Train- 
ees, and by Training Program, Helmuth F. Orthner, submitted to the Extramural Branch of 
the NIH, NLM (Mr. Peter Clepper), Sept 1, 1989, pp. 1 - 20. 

AMIA'S Advisory Council, Helmuth F. Orthner, MD Computing, #7, No. 4 (Jul/Aug., 1990). 

Medical Informatics in the Curriculum at The George Washington University, Thomas E. 
Piemme, William S. Yamamoto, Charles S. Tidball, Helmuth F. Orthner, Pierre S. Pincetl, and 
Shelley Bader, Proc. 14th SCAMC, 1990, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 0195-4210/90, pp. 509-513. 

Impact of New Communications Technologies on the Architecture of Health Information 
Systems, Helmuth F. Orthner, Invited Paper for the IMIA Working Group on Telematics in 
Medicine (TELEMED), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, November 19-20, 1990; in Telematics in 
Medicine, (eds.) Joop S. Duisterhout, Arie Hasman, and Roger Salamon, North-Holland, Am- 
sterdam, 1991; (c) IFIP-IMIA; pp. 419-438. 

Series Preface, in HELP: A Dynamic Hospital Information System, (eds.) Gilad J. Kuperman, 
M.D., Reed M. Gardner, Ph.D., and T. Allan Pryor, Ph.D.; Springer-Verlag New York, New 
York; 1991; pp.ix-xi. 

Medical Informatics - Quo Vadis, Helmuth F. Orthner, Ph.D., MD Comp., Jan./Feb. 1992. 

New Communication Technologies for Integrating Hospital Information Systems and 
their Computer-based Patient Records, Helmuth F. Orthner, Ph.D., in Aspects of Computer- 
based Patient Records, (eds.) Marion J. Ball, Ed.D. and Morris F. Collen, M.D., Springer- 
Verlag New York, NY, (1992) pp. 176-200. 

Series Preface, in Decision Support Systems for Critical Care, (eds.) M. Michael Shabot, 
M.D., and Reed M. Gardner, Ph.D.; Springer-Verlag New York, NY; 1994, pp. v-viii. 

New Communication Technologies for Integrating Hospital Information Systems and 
their Computer-based Patient Records, Helmuth F. Orthner, Ph.D., in Aspects of Computer- 
based Patient Records, (eds.) Marion J. Ball, Ed.D. and Morris F. Collen, M.D., Springer- 
Verlag New York, NY, (1992) pp. 176-200. (Updated version for second printing. June 1993.) 
Curriculum Vitae Helmuth F. Orthner   
 

Sharing and Communicating Health Care Information, Helmuth F. Orthner, George Wash- 
ington University, Washington, DC, Jean-Raoul Scherrer, University of Geneva, Geneva, Swit- 
zerland, and Roger Dahlen, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD, International 
Journal of Bio-Medical Computing, Vol. 34 (1994). 

Evaluation of the PC-based STATLAN System, Helmuth F. Orthner, Department of Medical 
Informatics, University of Utah Health Science Center; October 1993 (Departmental Report). 

Clinical Reports at the University of Utah Health Science Center: An Informal Survey of 
the Generation of Clinical Reports, Notes, and other Text Fragments, Helmuth F. Orthner, 
Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah Health Sciences Center; March 8, 1994 
(Departmental Report). 

University of Utah Health Sciences Center Master Dictionary: Status Report and Work 
Summary, Helmuth F. Orthner and Bo Lu, June 30, 1994 (Departmental Report). 

A New Messaging System for the University of Utah Health Sciences Center: Final Report 
and Recommendations, Electronic Mail Committee, David Druker, David Brown, Keith Cho- 
jnacki, Pam Primavera, Helmuth Orthner, Hospital & Clinical Informatics Report, March 29, 
1995. 

Wasatch Clinic Conversion Project, Helmuth F. Orthner, June 14, 1995 (Dept. Report). 

Data Backup Strategies, Data Backup Committee, Helmuth F. Orthner (Chair), Stephen Ad- 
kins, Mark Beekhuizen, Joel Bown, David Druker, Bo Lu, Pam Primavera (Hospital and Clini- 
cal Informatics Reports, May 7 and June 20, 1996). 

Series Preface, in Mental Health Computing, Marvin J. Miller, M.D., Kenric W. Hammond, 
M.D., and Matthew G. Hile, Ph.D., Springer-Verlag New York 1996, pp. ix-xi. 

Series Preface, in Information Retrieval: A Health Care Perspective, William R. Hersh, M.D.; 
Springer-Verlag New York, 1996, pp. vii-ix. 

Series Preface, in The Pace System: An Expert Consulting System for Nursing, Steven Evans; 
Springer-Verlag New York, 1997, pp. ix-xi. 

Series Preface, in Evaluation and Research Methods in Medical Informatics, Charles P. 
Friedman and Jeremy C. Wyatt; Springer-Verlag New York, 1997, pp. ix-xii. 

Series Preface, in Knowledge Engineering in Health Informatics, Homer R. Warner, Dean K. 
Sorenson, and Omar Bouhaddou; Springer-Verlag New York, NY; 1997. 

Preface, in Computerizing Large Integrated Health Networks: The VA Success, Robert M. Ko- 
lodner (Editor); (Computers in Health Care Series – Editors: Kathryn J. Hanna and Marion J. 
Ball) Springer-Verlag New York, NY, 1997, pp. xv-xix. 

SAM: Speech-Aware Applications in Medicine to Support Structured Data Entry, Arno 
K. Wormek, Joseph Ingenerf, and Helmuth F. Orthner, Journal of the American Medical In- 
formatics Association (Symposium Supplement) 1997, pp. 774-778. 

Capturing Clinical Reports in a large Academic Medical Center: Feeding a Central Pa- 
tient Data Repository, Michael K. Ekstrom, Helmuth F. Orthner, and Homer R. Warner, Jour- 
nal of the American Medical Informatics Association (Symposium Supplement) 1997, pp. 2-6. 

Series Preface, in Nursing and Computers: An Anthology, 1987-96, Virginia K. Saba, Dorothy 
B. Pocklington, and Kenneth P. Miller, Springer-Verlag New York, NY; 1998. 

Turning Access into a web-enabled secure information system for clinical trials.
Dongquan Chen, Chen WB, Soong M, Soong SJ, Orthner HF. 2009

Advanced communication infrastructure for pre-hospital EMS care.
Orthner H, Mazza G, Shenvi R, Battles M. 2008

Expert verification of the knowledge base of FEED--a feedback expert system for EMS documentation.
Saini D, Orthner HF, Berner ES, Mirza M, Godwin CJ, Brown TB. 2008

Design of an eMonitor system to transport electronic patient care report (ePCR) information in unstable MobileIP
wireless environment. Giovanni MG, Shenvi R, Battles M, Orthner HF. 2008

Information needs of pre-hospital care providers - a requirements analysis.
Saini D, Mirza M, Gori MM, Godwin CJ, Brown TB, Battles MH, Orthner HF. 2007

Expert validation of the knowledge base for E-CAD - a pre-hospital dispatch triage decision support system.
Mirza M, Saini D, Brown TB, Orthner HF, Mazza G, Battles MM. 2007

Development and testing of an algorithm for efficient resource positioning in pre-hospital emergency care.
Saini D, Mazza G, Shah N, Mirza M, Gori MM, Nandigam HK, Orthner HF. 2006

Chest pain and validity of an emergency medical dispatch algorithm.
Mishra N, Orthner HF, Pigott DC. 2006

A regional database of antidote availability.
Mirza M, Saini D, Dickens MA, Kazzi Z, Orthner HF. 2006

Application of speech recognition data entry enhancements in an Electronic Patient Care Report (ePCR).
Mazza G, Battles M, Orthner HF. 2006

A study design for comparing electronic patient care report (ePCR) with paper PCR in pre-hospital care.
Saini D, Sandhu A, Gori MM, Orthner HF. 2005

Information infrastructure for emergency medical services.
Orthner H, Mishra N, Terndrup T, Acker J, Grimes G, Gemmill J, Battles M. 2005

Personalized online information search and visualization.
Chen D, Orthner HF, Sell SM. 2005

Wireless local area network in a prehospital environment.
Chen D, Soong SJ, Grimes GJ, Orthner HF. 2004

Books

Implementing health care information systems / Helmuth F. Orthner, Bruce I. Blum, editors. 1989


Proceedings: The Tenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care by Helmuth F. Orthner 1986

Consensus Development Panel 1.
National Institutes of Health (US). Office for Medical Applications of Research. NIH Consensus Statements 1979

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