Father of medical informatics, Utah’s Homer Warner dies

Homer Warner, a pioneer of computerized medicine, pictured before one the first analog computers. Courtesy Homer Warner, Jr.

Homer Warner, a Utah cardiologist widely recognized as the father of medical informatics, died last week from complications of pancreatitis. He was 90.

Warners research is still redefining medicine, colleagues say. Modern intensive care units can be traced back to the electronic systems he built to monitor heart patients in the mid-1950s. And his creation of one of the first electronic medical records in the 70s set the stage for a new academic field and multi-billion dollar health IT industry.

Funeral services

A public service will be held at noon on Thursday, Dec. 6, at the Foothill Stake Center, 1933 S. 2100 East in Salt Lake City.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Homer R. Warner Scholarship Fund in Medical Informatics at the University of Utah.

Online condolences may be left at http://www.larkincares.com.

He had the mind of an intellectual and the soul of an adventurer, captivating University of Utah medical students in a speech just weeks before he died, said his son Homer Warner Jr. "He just had a quiet magnetism about him."

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