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HELMUTH F. ORTHNER, Ph.D.
(Curriculum Vitae, December 1999)
Positions: Professor and Director, Health Informatics
Department of Health Services Administration
School of Health Related Professions
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35294-3361
Telephone: (205) 934-3529 (direct with voice mail)
(205) 934-3509 (HI Program)
Fax Phone: (205) 975-6608 (departmental)
E-Mail: mailto:horthner@uab.edu
Web-site: http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~horthner
Home Address: 8185 South Danish Road Home Telephone: (801) 733-8900
Sandy, UT 84093-6509 Home Fax (call first): (801) 733-8901
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Bio-
medical Engineering), graduated in Spring 1973.
M.S. Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Institute für Nachrichtentechnik (Elec-
tronic Communications), graduated in Spring 1966.
B.S. Higher Technical Institute, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria, Division of Electrical Engineering
(Electrical Power Engineering), graduated in Summer 1962.
POSITIONS:
Sr. Scientist, UAB Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education (COERE), Sep-
tember 24, 1999 – present.
Sr. Scientist, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, March 1, 1999 – present.
Professor and Director, Health Informatics Program, Department of Health Services Administra-
tion, School of Health Related Profession, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL,
December 1998 – present.
Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, December 1998 – present.
Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City,
Utah; 1993 – 1998.
Professor, Department of Computer Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center
(GWUMC), Washington, DC, July 1985 - August 31, 1995.
Director, Office of Academic Computer Services, The George Washington University Medical
Center, Washington, DC, July 1978 – August, 1993.
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Medicine (renamed from Department of Clinical
Engineering in 1983), GWUMC, Washington, DC, July 1978 - June 1985.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Clinical Engineering, GWUMC, Washington, DC, July 1973 - 1978.
Instructor, Department of Clinical Engineering, GWUMC, Washington, DC, July 1972 – 1973.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:
Graduate Courses at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB):
1. Strategic Planning and Evaluation for Health Information System (HI 630) (together
with Mrs. Valeria M. Wilson, UAB Hospital Information Services): Today’s environment
necessitates the development and execution of strategic plans for the management of infor-
mation technologies. As the health care industry re-engineers for an increasingly changing
market, the recognition of information and its management as a critical resource will acceler-
ate. For survival, enterprises must be able to integrate information technology to support
critical business objectives. Strategies to ensure and measure their effectiveness and benefits
will become a likely requirement in an environment of competing health care markets.
2. Health Information System Selection and Contract Negotiations (HI 625): The purpose
of the course is to provide both the theory and, through simulated experiences, the practice in
developing RFPs, evaluating vendor proposals, negotiating vendor software contracts, and
preparing for the implementation of an information system. Students will be given the oppor-
tunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for successfully acquiring and
implementing a commercial information system and establishing a successful relationship
with the vendor. In addition, we will examine how to respond to the numerous opportunities
that the federal government provides to obtain grants and contracts (SBIR programs of NIH,
DoD, NASA, DoE, etc. and the NIST Advanced Technology Program).
3. Managing Web-based Systems for Health Care (HI 606): This is a hands-on computer
systems’ course designed to provide fundamental knowledge and concepts of modern infor-
mation systems and to provide the skills to install, configure, and manage these information
systems and components. The primary focus is on Web-based systems that form the basis of
the next generation of information systems.
4. Introduction to Health Information Systems for Managers (HA 640): The purpose of this
course is to provide administrators and managers an introduction and overview of informa-
tion systems used in the health care industry. Effective use of clinical data and their quantita-
tive analysis requires an understanding of how the data is captured during the process of pro-
viding patient care. The course provides students with sufficient background to communicate
effectively with technical personnel and provide general management oversight of informa-
tion systems within health care organizations.
5. Administrative Leadership in Health Care (Health Informatics Module HA 640-OF)
(team teaching with other HI faculty members): This module is a required component of the
Executive M.S.H.A. degree program for physicians and health care professionals. It provides
one week of intensive training in health informatics in Birmingham, AL and ten (10) weeks
of remote follow-on training at their location of employment using e-mail and video-
conferencing technologies. The contents of the course covers topics of health information
systems and their information infrastructure, the use of computers in outcomes research, and
in quality improvement processes.
Administrative Assignments: The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB):
• Director, Graduate Program in Health Informatics
• Chair, IAIMS Workgroup on Informatics Research
Graduate Courses in Medical Informatics at the University of Utah:
1. Advanced Networking and Communications Technologies for Health Information Sys-
tems, (MDINF 6230) this graduate course addresses current networking for local and wide area
networks. The topics include traditional networking technologies (Ethernet, Fast Ethernet,
FDDI, SMDS, Frame Relay) and emerging technologies such as ATM (Asynchronous Transfer
Mode), ADSL (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Loop), Gigabit Ethernet, ISDN (Integrated
Services Digital Network), and wireless voice/data networks. Special emphasis is placed on
technologies used by the world-wide-web.
2. Core Course in Medical Informatics: Systems Development Section (MDINF 6000) this
section of three lectures provides an overview of and introduction to the architecture of health
information systems and the development processes for health information systems. This in-
cludes a discussion of the systems development life cycle and modern software engineering
practices. The emphasis is on client/server and the new web-based systems. The goal is make
students aware of the evolving object oriented software design tools to create event driven soft-
ware interfaces, and reusable software components based on ActiveX and Java components.
3. Research Design in Medical Informatics (MDINF 6110), together with Aruna Bansal, Ph.D.)
this course introduces Medical Informatics students in basic techniques for research and ex-
perimental design, evaluations techniques of user interfaces and clinical information systems.
Students must select a project, evaluate the appropriate literature, prepare research proposals,
practice technical writing and presentation skills, familiarize themselves with reviewing manu-
scripts and research proposals (e.g., the NIH grants review process) by evaluating and critiquing
real manuscripts and research proposals. The student must defend the project in a seminar.
4. Web-Based Programming (MDINF 695-1, together with Dean Sorenson, Ph.D., Bruce Bray,
M.D., and Jonathan Olson, BSCS), this experimental course provides students with a knowl-
edge of current Internet technologies. The students will become familiar with applications de-
velopment methods and skills necessary to create a functional web-based application.
5. AMIA Tutorials (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997): Emerging Communications Technologies for
Health Information Systems, a 3-hour overview of current enterprise-wide networking tech-
nologies, topologies, and management issues. Foundations of frame and cell switching tech-
nologies (e.g., Frame Relay, SMDS, ATM); strategies for migrating from traditional networks
(Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigagbit Ethernet) to ATM-based backbone. Wide-area communica-
tions technologies (ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, SONET), and advanced local loop technologies
(ADSL, VDSL).
6. AMIA Tutorials (1998): New Communication Technologies for Web-based Health Informa-
tion System, a 3-hour overview of communication technologies supporting client/server and
Web-based architectures. Foundations of frame and cell switching technologies (e.g., ATM,
Layer 3 and Layer 3 IP Switching); strategies for migrating from various Ethernet technologies
to ATM-based networks in the LAN. WAN technologies (ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, SONET),
and advanced local loop technologies (ADSL, VDSL).
Research Interests:
• Advanced Computer-based Patient Data Repositories, Clinical Systems, and User Interfaces.
• Integrated Health Information Systems with special focus on the semantic integration of data
and workflow issues.
• High-performance Computer Communication Networks (LAN, WAN, ISDN, ADSL, ATM).
• Multi-media, web-based systems (text, voice, images, and video for clinical systems).
• Distributed Architectures of Health Information Systems.
• Telemedicine and Integration of Health Information from a variety of sources
Editorial Activities:
Series Editor (1989-1999): Computers and Medicine, Monograph Series, Springer-Verlag New
York, NY. The monographs are hard bound and typeset reference books.
1. Implementing Health Care Information Systems, Helmuth Orthner and Bruce Blum, 1989.
2. A Clinical Information System for Oncology, John P. Enterline, Raymond E. Lenhard, Jr.,
and Bruce I. Blum, 1989.
3. Nursing and Computers: An Anthology, Virginia Saba, Karen Rieder, and Dorothy B. Pock-
lington, 1989.
4. HELP: A Dynamic Hospital Information System, Gilad J. Kuperman, Reed M. Gardner, and
T. Allen Pryor, 1991.
5. Decision Support Systems in Critical Care, M. Michael Shabot and Reed M. Gardner (1994).
6. Information Retrieval: A Health Care Perspective, William Hersh, 1996.
7. Mental Health Computing, Marvin J. Miller, Kenric W. Hammond, and Matthew G. Hile,
1996.
8. Evaluation Methods in Medical Informatics, Charles P. Friedman and Jeremy C. Wyatt with
contributions by Bonnie Kaplan, 1997.
9. The Pace System: An Expert Consulting System for Nursing, Steven Evans, 1997.
10. Knowledge Engineering in Health Informatics, Homer R. Warner, Dean K. Sorenson, and
Omar Bouhaddou, 1997
11. Nursing and Computers: An Anthology, 1987 –1996, Virginia K. Saba, Dorothy B. Pock-
lington, and Kenneth P. Miller, 1998.
Scientific Reviewer:
1998-present Ad-hoc reviewer for the Deputy Editor of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical
Association), Dr. Drummond Rennie, MD, Chicago, Ilinois.
1977-98 Proceedings of the AMIA Fall Congresses (formerly the Annual Symposia on Com-
puter Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC).
1996-97 Clinica Chimca
1995 Scientific Reviewer of the Special Study Section #9, Division of Research Grants,
NIH, Bethesda, MD.
1996 SBIR Grant Reviewer for Special Study Section-9, Surgery, Radiation & Bioengi-
neering IRG; Division of Research Grants, NIH
1996-97 Clinical Chimca Acta (International Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Medical
Biochemistry (special computer related issues only), Elsevier Science Publisher
B.V. (Biomedical Division), Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
1997 Chair, Special Emphasis Panel for “Informatics Support for Breast Cancer and
Colon Cancer Cooperative Family Registries” (RFA CA97-022).
1997-01 Member of the Biomedical Review Committee of the National Library of Medi-
cine (NLM’s Study Section), NIH, Bethesda, MD
1998 Reviewer, NLM BAA/RFP-NLM-98-102/MVA - Biomedical Applications for the
Next Generation Internet
1998 Member of the Final Review Panel for the large, multi-agency Digital Library 2
project (NSF is lead agency).
Awards, Honors, Invited Presentations:
1979 Tenure, Department of Computer Medicine, The George Washington University School of
Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC.
1981 Honored to be the First Charter Member of AAMSI (American Association of Medical Sys-
tems and Informatics), Washington, DC (see Special Recognition AAMSI NEWS, Vol. 1,
No. 1, March 1982, p. 20).
1984 Elected Founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).
1986 Elected Honorary Member of ETA KAPPA NU (EE & CS Honor Society), School of Engi-
neering and Applied Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
1988 Invited by the WG10 of IMIA (Int. Medical Informatics Assoc.) to present a paper on "New
Communication Technologies in Hospital Information Systems," May 1988.
1988 Founding Member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
1989 Invited to present on "Integrierte Informations Systeme für Universitäts Klinika", to the
Faculty of Theoretical Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
1990 Chair of WG 7: Systems Communications & Network Linkage Standards and member of
the WG1: Current State of Patient Care Systems; Technology Sub-Committee of the Insti-
tute of Medicine's Study on Improving the Medical Record in Response to Increasing Func-
tional Requirements and Technological Advances.
1991 AWARD for an Outstanding Publication in the Category of Scientific and Technical Book"
presented to Helmuth F. Orthner and Bruce I. Blum as coeditors of the book Implementing
Health Care Information Systems published by Springer-Verlag Inc., New York, 1989 by
Editorial Board of the Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University.
1992 Presentation to DARPA Project Manager on: Grand Challenges in Medical Informatics,
Helmuth F. Orthner, Ph.D., Gelman Library, Room 202, The George Washington Univer-
sity, Washington, DC, October 29, 1992.
1993 Co-Chair Group E: Sharing and Communicating of Health Care Information; IMIA Con-
ference on the Healthcare Profession Workstation, Washington, DC, June 14-16, 1993.
1996 ‘Meet the Expert’ in Clinical Dictation Systems in “Meet the Expert Session” at the 1996
AMIA Fall Symposium (formerly the 20th SCAMC).
1997 Clinical Information Integration: What is the Role of Medical Informatics?, University of
Texas - Houston Medical Center, February 25, 1997.
1997 Emerging Communication Technologies for Health Information Systems, Utah Chapter of
the Health Information and Management Systems Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 23,
1997
1997 Clinical Concepts: Linking the Practice of Medicine, Science of Medicine, and Medical
Education, American Dental Assoc., Chicago, Illinois, June 20, 1997.
1997 Networks, Intranets, Clients, and Servers, Continuing Medical Education Conference, De-
partment of Medical Informatics, Park City, UT, September 4-6, 1997.
1998 Clinical Information Integration: The ACIS Experience, University of Missouri – Colum-
bia, Columbia, Missouri, January 29, 1998.
1998 Information Integration: Linking Clinical Practice with Medical Research and Education,
Oregon Health Science University, Portland, Oregon, July 24, 1998.
1998 Technologies Supporting Information Integration for Medical Care, University of Alabama
– Birmingham, Alabama, September 23, 1998.
1999 Health Informatics at UAB, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, UAB, May
5, 1999
1999 Health Informatics for the Next Century, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, UAB, May
12, 1999
1999 Clinical Information Integration, Abteiling für Medizinische Informatik, Georg-August-
Universität, Göttingen, Deutschland.
Grants, Contracts, and Evaluation Studies:
1. Computer Laboratory for Health Care, 1 R01 MB 00097, Principal Investigator; Develop-
ment of a packet switching computer network linking four heterogeneous mini-computers
(1974-1978).
2. Executive Information Management System, Principal Investigator, Management Support
Office, VA Central Office, Washington, DC. Development of an executive manpower man-
agement system (1983 -1985).
3. Evaluation of the APACHE III Clinical Information System, NLM, NIH; Co-investigator
May 1991.
4. An Expert Knowledge Server with a General Vocabulary Interface, NIST/ATP, Gaithers-
burg, MD, Co-Investigator via a subcontract with the Department of Medical Informatics (5%
Effort); Principle Investigator: Omar Bouhaddou, Applied Medical Informatics, Inc.; 1995.
5. University of Utah Medical Informatics Training, Medical Informatics Research Training
National Library of Medicine, NIH (LM-96-002), Co-Investigator; PI: Reed M. Gardner; 1996.
6. University of Utah Consortium Participation on NLM/AHCPR Large Scale Vocabulary
Test (NLM RFQ 96-047/DJH), Co-Investigator, PI: Michael Lincoln, M.D., 1996.
7. Automating Disease Surveillance from Structured and Text Data, Sunquest Information
Systems, PI: Helmuth F. Orthner. Subcontract: $50,000
8. Evaluation of the Enterprise Express Voice and Text Processing Systems, Dictaphone
Corporation, Helmuth F. Orthner and Michael Ekstrom.
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(Feasibility). PI: Helmuth F. Orthner, 20% Effort, $983,145; two years (pending). UAB sub-
contract: $591,828.
UUHSC Projects, Department of Medical Informatics, 1993-98:
1993 Evaluation of the PC-based STATLAN System at the University of Utah Hospital
1993 - 94 Design, implementation, and seeding of ACIS Master Dictionary and Picklists (with
ACIS developers and Bo Lu, MI Graduate Student).
1994 - 94 Informal Survey of the Generation of Clinical Reports, Notes, and other Text Fragments
at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center.
1994 - Capturing of clinical reports from several ancillary systems, transcription companies,
and medical secretaries (with Mike Ekstrom, MI Graduate Student).
1995 – 95 Conversion of the MedEdge Patient Database to ACIS (with Bo Lu).
1995 – 96 Leader, Implementation Team for the Advanced Clinical Information System (ACIS)
for remote clinics owned by the University of Utah Hospital.
1997-98 Coordinator of MI Seminar Series
1998-99 Coordinator of MI Seminar Series
PUBLIC SPIRITED ACTIVITIES (SCAMC, AMIA, MTA), 1976-94:
Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC), American Medical In-
formatics Association (AMIA), M Technology Association (MTA) Activities:
1976-78 Program Chairman, 1st and 2nd SCAMC Congress
1977-79 Chair, SCAMC Group in Washington, DC
1979-81 President, SCAMC, Inc. (two terms)
1979-82 Member of the SCAMC, Inc. Executive Committee
1979-89 Member of the Board of Directors, SCAMC, Inc.
1979 Vice-Chairman, 3rd SCAMC Congress,
SCAMC Organizer of sessions on Computer Systems for Physicians' Office Practice
1980 Tutorial Chairman of 4th SCAMC; Sponsorship Chairman of 4th SCAMC
Organizer of Sessions on Computer Systems for Physicians' Office Practice
1981-82 Past President, SCAMC, Inc.
1981-84 Chairman, SCAMC Student Paper Competition in Medical Informatics
1981 SCAMC Session Chairman for Computers in Medical Education
Coordinator, AAMSI & SCAMC's Tutorial Program
1982 SCAMC Session Chairman: Systems in Medical Education
1982 Program Chairman, ACM Washington DC Chapter Special Interest Group on Biomedi-
cal Computing (SIGBIO)
1983-86 Executive Director, MUMPS Users' Group - North America 1984-86
Member of Nucleus, Scientific Program Committee for MEDINFO 86
1984 Member Program Committee 8th SCAMC
1985 Member Program Committee 9th SCAMC; Chair, Scientific Demonstrations
1985-86 Program Co-Chair, 10th SCAMC; Chair, Scientific Demonstration for MEDINFO 86
1987 Program Committee Member, ACM Workshop on the “History of Medical Informatics”
at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
1983-87 Member of the Board, MUMPS User's Group - North America
1988- Founding Member, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
1988-91 Member of the Board of Directors of AMIA
1988-92 Member, AMIA's Membership Committee.
1989- Editor, Computers and Medicine Monograph Series, Springer-Verlag New York
1990-91 Coordinator of AMIA's Advisory Council; Chair, Professional Liaison Committee
1990 Reviewer of the VA DHCP Imaging Project Evaluation Panel, May 14, 1990.
1993 Panel Participant, AMIA Spring Congress 1993, St. Louis, MO, CPR Technology Up-
date: High-speed local area and wide-area networking.
1993 Co-Chair, Group E: Sharing and Communicating Health Care Information, IMIA's WC
on Health Professional Workstations, Washington, DC, June 14-17, 1993.
1994- Member, AMIA Committee on Telecommunications and Networking.
PUBLICATIONS and REPORTS:
1. 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).
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. The Internal Impedance of Spontaneously Breathing Rats at Clamped Chemical Drive,
(abstract) F. Helmuth Orthner, Fed. Proc., 1974, 33(3); p. 419.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. Computer Support for Scoring Written PMP Examinations, HF Orthner, TE Piemme, and
AL Acord, Innovations in Medical Education Exhibits, GME, AAMC, 1981.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. Microprocessor Networks for Laboratory Medicine, Mario Werner and Helmuth F. Orthner,
MEDINFO 83 Seminars, (ed.) O. Fokkens, North Holland, 1983, pp. 236-238.
30. SCAMC Student Paper Competition focuses on Medical Informatics, Helmuth F. Orthner,
MUG Quarterly, Vol. XIII, No. 3/4, 1984, pp. 66-67.
31. Student Paper Competition focuses on Medical Informatics, Helmuth F. Orthner, Journal of
Medical Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1984, pp. 213-216.
32. MUMPS Users' Group Annual Report 1984, Helmuth F. Orthner, MUG Quarterly, Vol.
XIV, No. 4, 1985, pp. 55-60.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. Foreword, and Introduction, Helmuth F. Orthner, Proc. 10th SCAMC, 1986, IEEE Computer
Soc. Press, 86CH2341-6, pp. v-x.
37. Welcome, Helmuth F. Orthner, Final Program Brochure, 10th SCAMC, 1986, pp. 2-3.
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. Prof. Dr. med. Peter L. Reichertz (dedication), Helmuth F. Orthner and Daniel K. Harris,
Computer Methods & Programs Biomedicine, 1987, Vol. 25(2), p. 69.
41. 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.
42. Ten Years of Medical Informatics, H. F. Orthner, Comp. Methods Progr. Biomed., 1987, Vol.
25(2), pp. 73-86.
43. 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
44. 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.
45. 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.
46. 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.
47. 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.
48. 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.
49. 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.
50. 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.
51. AMIA'S Advisory Council, Helmuth F. Orthner, MD Computing, #7, No. 4 (Jul/Aug., 1990).
52. 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.
53. 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.
54. 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.
55. Medical Informatics - Quo Vadis, Helmuth F. Orthner, Ph.D., MD Comp., Jan./Feb. 1992.
56. 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.
57. 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.
58. 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
59. 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).
60. Evaluation of the PC-based STATLAN System, Helmuth F. Orthner, Department of Medical
Informatics, University of Utah Health Science Center; October 1993 (Departmental Report).
61. 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).
62. University of Utah Health Sciences Center Master Dictionary: Status Report and Work
Summary, Helmuth F. Orthner and Bo Lu, June 30, 1994 (Departmental Report).
63. 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.
64. Wasatch Clinic Conversion Project, Helmuth F. Orthner, June 14, 1995 (Dept. Report).
65. 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).
66. 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.
67. Series Preface, in Information Retrieval: A Health Care Perspective, William R. Hersh, M.D.;
Springer-Verlag New York, 1996, pp. vii-ix.
68. Series Preface, in The Pace System: An Expert Consulting System for Nursing, Steven Evans;
Springer-Verlag New York, 1997, pp. ix-xi.
69. 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.
70. Series Preface, in Knowledge Engineering in Health Informatics, Homer R. Warner, Dean K.
Sorenson, and Omar Bouhaddou; Springer-Verlag New York, NY; 1997.
71. 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.
72. 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.
73. 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.
74. 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.
