Salt Lake Informatics, Decision Enhancement, And Surveillance (IDEAS) Center

Mission

The mission of the Salt Lake IDEAS (Informatics, Decision-Enhancement, And Surveillance) Center is to build a preeminent community of researchers who advance knowledge and improve clinical care through the development, implementation, and evaluation of computerized tools and interventions that integrate surveillance and decision support.

Context

The IDEAS Center is a close, synergistic collaboration of health services researchers from a variety of departments and centers across the University of Utah and Salt Lake City. Represented entities are the Departments of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, Psychology, and Pharmacy Practice; the VA Salt Lake Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center; The Huntsman Cancer Institute; the Intermountain Healthcare Institute for Healthcare Delivery; the Utah Department of Health; the CDC Center for Public Health Informatics; and the Utah Center on Ageing.

The IDEAS center also participates in training of researchers through the Epidemiology track of the K-30 program, the masters and doctoral programs of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, and federal career development awards.

Core Investigators and Research

Matthew H. Samore, MD, Director.
Clinical epidemiology, public health informatics, patient safety (adverse drug and device events), data warehousing, computerized decision support, antibiotic prescribing in primary care, bioterrosism, medical informatics, pubic health informatics

Jonathan R. Nebeker, MS, MD, Associate Director.
Patient safety (adverse drug and device events), clinical epidemiology, decision rules, medical informatics, pubic health informatics

Charlene R. Weir, RN, PhD
Social psychology, patient safety (adverse drug events), design, implementation, and evaluation of medical informatics solutions.

Anita Y. Kinney, RN, PhD
Behavior epidemiology, cancer prevention and control, genetic counseling

Frank A. Drews, PhD
Cognitive psychology, human factors, patient safety (adverse drug and device events), medical informatics.

Michael A. Rubin, MD, PhD
Computerized decision support for antibiotic prescribing in primary care and nursing homes, medical informatics, pubic health informatics.

Brian C. Sauer, PhD
Pharmacoepidemiology, patient safety (adverse drug events), clinical epidemiology, pubic health informatics

Jennifer M. Hoffman, PharmD
Adverse drug events, natural language processing

Byron D. Bair, MD MBA
Telemedicine, home-based interventions in vulnerable seniors, patient decision-making capacity

Randal Rupper, MD MPH
Patient decision making, care-seeking behavior, public policy

Ashok Tuteja, MD MPH
Irritable bowel syndrome.

Srnivastan Beddhu, MD
Dialysis timing, relationship of weight to mortality in CRF.

Michael J. Lincoln, MD
Vocabulary and ontologies, medical informatics