Public Biography
Susan Matney, PhD, RNC-OB, FAAN, FACMI is a Medical Informaticist with Intermountain Healthcare. Susan has more than 20 years of experience in Informatics and 30 years in nursing. In 2002 Susan took the terminology Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) to the American Nurses Association to be recognized as a terminology for use by nursing. She represents nursing at national/international conferences and organizations, including SNOMED-CT, Health Level 7 (HL7), LOINC, and the Federal Health Information Model Terminology (FHIM) team. She is chair of the LOINC nursing subcommittee and vocabulary facilitator for the HL7 CIMI work group. Susan is adjunct faculty at the University of Utah College of Nursing. She created a Theory of Wisdom-in-Action for Clinical Nursing as her dissertation.
Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Matney has championed the representation of front line nursing data and information in LOINC and SNOMED CT. Furthermore, she has worked to achieve syntactic and semantic interoperability within EHRs and other clinical data repositories to enable analytics and clinical decision-making among inter-professional teams to improve patient care.
Affiliations
Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA)
FAMIA stands for “Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association” and it recognizes the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice – be that in a clinical setting, a public or population health capacity, or as a clinical researcher.
Year Inducted
2020
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2017