Medical Informaticist

Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research

Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City, UT)

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Biomedical Informatics

University of Utah School of Medicine (Salt Lake City, UT)

Joyce Mitchell, Peter J. Haug

I am involved in researching informatics components of medical knowledge management, physician order entry systems, clinical information system development, and clinical genetics.

My research interests include medical knowledge management, physician order entry systems, clinical information system development, and clinical genetics. My group is actively developing tools for capturing patient family disease history data within a PHR environment.

Other key areas of interest include:

• Translational aspects of biomedical informatics
• Consistent representation strategies for gene sequences, markers, single nucleotide polymorphisms, amino acid motifs; pattern analysis regimens & algorithms
• Protein secondary & tertiary structure abstraction, motif detection, etc
• Genetic-oriented decision support, population-based studies
• Linking genetic information to the patient record
• Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Authoring Tools
• Knowledge extraction environments
• Closed-loop learning systems
• Clinical Information Systems
• Physician Order Entry/ Order Sets
• Personal health records, family disease history data collection
• Consumer-oriented decision support tools
• Social networking environments for parents of sick children to share information/tools in caring for their child’s disease-specific needs
• Social networking environments for cancer patients & their caregivers
• ‘Bridging’ query tools that facilitate questions against clinical and genetic data sets simultaneously
• Cohort identification/ management toolsets
• Real-time screening networks for ‘just-in-time’ study subject recruitment
• Storage/query strategies for ‘federated’ database environments
• Workflow/automation infrastructure for clinical research processes

1999 Huntsman Cancer Institute Intern

2001 Outstanding Chemistry Student Award, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah

2000 Outstanding Chemistry Student Award, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah

1998 Outstanding Chemistry Student Award, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah