Publications

• Developing an Open Source Asynchronous Communication Framework for Public Health - PHAccess
  Presentation at the Public Health Information Network Conference, Atlanta, GA, Aug. 31 - Sept. 3, 2009
• Using Episodes of Care to Analyze Asthma in Utah Medicaid
  Poster presented at the Utah Public Health Association’s 2009 Conference, Midway, Utah, May 18-20, 2009
• Turning Junk Data into Value
  Poster presented at the American Medical Informatics Association’s 2009 Spring Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 28-30, 2009
• Surveying Asynchronous Communication in Public Health
  Poster presented at the American Medical Informatics Association’s 2009 Spring Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 28-30, 2009
• Implementing Asynchronous Communication in Public Health
  Presentation at the Utah Public Health Association’s 2009 Conference, Midway, Utah, May 18-20, 2009

• "Using ICD Codes and Birth Records to Prevent Mismatches of Multiple Births in Linked Hospital Readmission Data." Poster presented at the American Medical Informatics Association's 2008 Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November 8-12, 2008. This poster was nominated for distinguished Poster Award.

• "Using ICD-9-CM Codes in Hospital Claims Data to Detect Adverse Events in Patient Safety Surveillance" In Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches: Volume 1, published by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/advances2/.

• Utah Department of Health with Utah Health Information Network. Clinical Health Information Exchange Utah, 2008: A Progress Report submitted to the Utah Legislative Health and Human Services Interim Committee.
• Linkage Standard Matters: Using Hospital Discharge Records to Develolp Statewide Inpatient Master Index
  Poster presented at the American Medical Informatics Association’s 2008 Spring Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, May 29-31, 2008
• The Use of Probabilistic Linkage to Remove Duplicates and Resolve Possible Matches in a Large Statewide Immunization Registry
  Poster presented at the American Medical Informatics Association’s 2008 Spring Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, May 29-31, 2008
• Statewide Identification of Adverse Events Using Retrospective Nurse Review: Methods And Outcomes
• A consulting paper for Utah Department of Health: Evolution of Public Health Information Systems: Enterprise-wide Approaches.
• Utah Health Officials and Researchers Win National Awards At the Public Health Information Network Conference. (August 2007)
  1st Place Award Poster | 2nd Place Award Poster | 3rd Place Award Poster