Intermountain Healthcare
Medical Informatics
LDS Hospital
8th Avenue and C Street
Salt Lake City, Utah,
UT
USA
84143
Email:
RScott.Evans@imail.org
Biographical Sketch:
R. Scott Evans is a Senior Medical Informaticist in the department of Medical Informatics at LDS Hospital and Intermountain Healthcare, a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Evans received his BS degree in Zoology and MS degree in Microbiology/Parasitology from Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in Medical Biophysics & Computing from the University of Utah. He is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association and is a Fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association and was on the Institute of Medicine’s committee for the “Identification and Prevention of Medication Errors.” In 1992 he won the “Best Paper Award” at the annual American Medical Informatics Association meeting. In 1993 he received the “Priscilla M. Mayden Award” for outstanding contribution in the field of Medical Informatics and in 1997 received the “Oslers Cloak” award for excellence in caring and curing from Intermountain Health Care. He received the “Distinguished Poster Award” in 2005 from the American Medical Informatics Association.
His major experience and interests have been in the design, development, and evaluation of computerized decision support tools for the selection and management of antiinfective agents, computer methods to identify and reduce adverse drug events and adverse medical device events, computerized methods to identify patients needing isolation, and computerized methods to identify and reduce hospital-acquired infections and report notifiable diseases. A number of these computerized tools are clinically operational at several hospitals at Intermountain Healthcare. He has published over 90 articles, most on topics involving Medical Informatics, in peer reviewed journals from the Medical Informatics literature and a number of clinical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA.