Sidney N. Thornton, Ph.D. works as a Senior Medical Informataticist at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah. His responsibilities over the years have included clinical informatics and operational oversight for perinatal, pediatric, and laboratory information systems. His current projects include derived billing support through inpatient and outpatient clinical documentation. He serves as associate director for the Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research at Intermountain with responsibility for building partnerships with industrial research. He holds an adjunct research faculty position at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics, where research interests focus on integrated clinical and administrative data systems. In 2002 he received the HR Warner Award at the American Medical Informatics Association for his foundational work in activity–based costing.
Intermountain Healthcare is a non-profit health system based in Salt Lake City, Utah with over 26,000 employees serving the healthcare needs of Utah and southeastern Idaho. With a continual investment in quality, Intermountain’s system of 21 hospitals, 130+ clinics and urgent care centers, health plans, and physicians group provides excellent medical care while maintaining affordable rates. For over 30 years, Intermountain has made a strong commitment to building world-class clinical and financial information systems. The medical informatics community at Intermountain has lead the way in areas of advanced clinical decision support, medical data warehousing, and longitudinal patient electronic health records. In 2006, Intermountain formed the Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research for the purposes of coordinating industry sponsored research and informatics technology transfer.
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