Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Speedie received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Masters in Educational Research, and PhD in Educational Research, Statistics and Measurement from Purdue. He joined the faculty of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Maryland where he rose through the ranks to become Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science. In 1996, he became Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in the Division of Health Computer Sciences of the School of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. He also serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Health Informatics Program at the University of Minnesota and helped to create a new Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) there. Since 2006, he has also been an Adjunct Professor at the new Arizona State University Department of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Speedie was one of the first informaticians to demonstrate the applicability of rule-based systems to the process of detecting prescribing errors in drug therapy as performed by pharmacists. His early work in this area presaged the development of rule-based systems for drug usage review in pharmacies that has been applied in some state Medicaid systems to improve the quality and reduce the number of medication errors. He was an early developer of methods for assessing the cost-effectiveness of telemedicine, and worked with his students to develop a Telemedicine Perceptions Questionnaire that is widely used to measure patient perceptions of the benefits, threats, and usability of home telehealth applications. More recently he has turned his research interests to modeling the process of clinical research, and developed the primary care research object model (PCROM), which is a computable information model for practice-based primary care research. Dr. Speedie's career has focused on careful observation and measurement, and teaching. He has also demonstrated sustained dedication to graduate student education and mentoring. His election to the College recognizes these technical and organizational achievements.
Affiliations
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
2008