The 2011 Awards and Awardees:
Award Title: The First UDOH Data Contributor to the Utah Clinical Health Information Exchange (cHIE): Medicaid Medication Lists
For Excellence in Partnership and National Significance
Team Leader: Brenda Bryant (MHF)
Team Members: Tim Morley (MHF), Vern Cornelison (DTS), Chris Warren (DTS), Ronaldo Baltazar (DTS), Francesca Lanier (CHD)
Description: Medicaid is the first UDOH agency to send Medicaid clients’ medication histories to the state-designated clinical Health Information Exchange (cHIE), administrated by the Utah Health Information Network (UHIN). The exchange of public health clinical information is coordinated by the Center for Health Data and maintained by the staff from Utah Department of Technology Services.
Award Title: Utah Data Analysis and Reporting Tool (UDART): the First Standardized Public Health Program Monitoring System in Utah, 2001-2011
For Excellence in Partnership, Process Improvement, Management Informatics Innovation
Team Leaders: Claudia Bohner and Whitney Johnson
Team Member: Heather Borski
Description: The Bureau of Health Promotion (BHP) has partnered with Utah Association for Local Community Health Education specialists (ULACHES) and the 12 local health departments to develop and implement the UDART since 2001. This is a low-cost and effective state-local contract management system. UDART has standardized progress reporting across BHP contracts with Local Health Departments, improved data quality and comparability, increased data sharing among public health programs, increased efficiency and ease of progress reporting and report review, and assisted with program planning for users.
Award Title: Interoperability between Intermountain Healthcare’s Electronic Health Records and UDOH Death Registration (EDEN)
For Excellence in Partnership, National Significance, Interoperability Innovation
Team Leader: Jeffrey Duncan (CHD)
Team Members: Leisa Finch (CHD/OVRS), Keyi Niu (DCP/DTS), Jacob Tripp (Intermountain)
Description: Utah Office of Vital Records and Statistics (OVRS) and Intermountain Healthcare jointly developed the first real-time mortality surveillance interoperability between healthcare and public health in the nation. OVRS adopted HL7 standards for their Electronic Death Entry Network (EDEN) to electronically exchange death registrations with Intermountain’s Electronic Health Records, “HELP2” Cause-of-Death Module. The death interface has been successfully used to certify nearly 40 deaths in pilot testing and the final HL7 message we developed is being balloted as a draft standard for trial
The 2010 Awards and Awardees:
1. For Implementation of a nationally significant information system:
Joshua Legler, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness
2. For effective process improvement in informatics: Sam Vanous, Office of Health Care Statistics 3. For Training and Education in Informatics: Mike Webb and Chris Pratt, DTS: Process and Tools in IT Project Management 4. For Partnership in Informatics: Gary Berg, Healthinsight
The 2009 Awards and Awardees:
Shaheen Hossain, PhD,Manager,Data Resources Program
Ari Aryazand,Web Coordinator,Data Resources Program
Becky Ward, Education/Outreach Coordinator,Immunization Program
Nancy Cheeney, Restriction Program Manager, Bureau of Managed Health Care, Division of Health Care Financing
Bill Stockdale, Research Consultant, Office of Public Health Informatics
Yukiko Yoneoka, Health Program Specialist, USIIS Program
David Jackson, UT-NEDSS, Product Manager, Division of Epidemiology and Laboratory Services
Brian Hatch, Division Director, Davis County Health Department
Susan Mottice, Epidemiologist, Bureau of Epidemiology
Jon Reid, Informatics Portfolio Manager, Office of Public Health Informatics
Bryan Gibson, DPT, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah
Neelam Zafar, MHA, MD, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah
The 2008 Awards and Awardees:
Jenny Johnson, Health Program Specialist, Violence and Injury Prevention Program
Nancy McConnell, Program Manager for USIIS Program
Chris Pratt, IT Project Lead for USIIS, Department of Technology Services
Sam LeFevre, Program Manager for Environmental Health Program, Office of Epidemiology, Division of Laboratory and Epidemiology Services
Dr. Lois Haggard, Director for the Office of Public Health Assessment