Stanley M. Huff

Stanley M. Huff, MD, FACMI

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Adjunct - Pathology , Primary - Biomedical Informatics

Board Certification

  • National Board of Medical Examiners
  • American Board of Preventive Medicine (Clinical Informatics)
  • American Society for Clinical Pathology (Medical Laboratory Scientist)

Dr. Stanley M. Huff earned his MD from the University of Utah’s School of Medicine. He is a clinical professor in the University of Utah’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, an adjunct professor of Nursing, and an adjunct assistant professor of Pathology at the University of Utah.



His expertise is in the following areas: medical information representation in database systems; standards for the exchange of data between medical computer systems, including Health Level Seven (HL7), Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), and SNOMED CT; as well as Electronic Medical Record architecture and design.

Dr. Huff joined the department in 1987 as a clinical professor. He is board certified in Clinical Pathology and was elected to the American College of Medical Informatics in 1997.. He serves on the Health Information Technology Standards Committee (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology), is a member of the Board of HL7, and co-chairs the LOINC Committee.

“As long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by the power of computers. It seemed like the ideal situation to me to use the power of computers to prevent disease and help patients get well faster.”

Research Statement

Medical information representation in database systems; standards for the exchange of data between medical computer systems, including HL7, LOINC and SNOMED C; Electronic Medical Record architecture and design.

Education History

Undergraduate Brigham Young University
 BS
Professional Medical University of Utah
 MD
Residency University of New Mexico
 Resident
Residency University of Utah
 Resident

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Stram M, Gigliotti T, Hartman D, Pitkus A, Huff SM, Riben M, Henricks WH, Farahani N, Pantanowitz L (2020). Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes for Laboratorians. Arch Pathol Lab Med, 144(2), 229-239.
  2. Chute CG, Huff SM, Ferguson JA, Walker JM, Halamka J (2012). There are important reasons for delaying implementation of the new ICD-10 coding system. Health affairs (Project Hope), 31(4), 836-42.
  3. Westra BL, Subramanian A, Hart CM, Matney SA, Wilson PS, Huff SM, Huber DL, Delaney C (2010). Achieving "meaningful use" of electronic health records through the integration of the Nursing Management Minimum Data Set. The Journal of nursing administration, 40(7-8), 336-43.
  4. Lin MC, Vreeman DJ, McDonald CJ, Huff S (2011). A characterization of local LOINC mapping for laboratory tests in three large institutions. Methods of information in medicine, 50(2), 105-14.
  5. Jiang G, Evans J, Oniki TA, Coyle JF, Bain L, Huff SM, Kush RD, Chute C (2015). Harmonization of detailed clinical models with clinical study data standards. Methods of information in medicine, 54(1), 65-74.
  6. Rajeev D, Staes CJ, Evans RS, Mottice S, Rolfs R, Samore MH, Whitney J, Kurzban R, Huff S (2010). Development of an electronic public health case report using HL7 v2.5 to meet public health needs. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 17(1), 34-41.
  7. Tao C, Jiang G, Oniki TA, Freimuth RR, Zhu Q, Sharma D, Pathak J, Huff SM, Chute C (2013). A semantic-web oriented representation of the clinical element model for secondary use of electronic health records data. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 20(3), 554-62.
  8. Pathak J, Bailey KR, Beebe CE, Bethard S, Carrell DC, Chen PJ, Dligach D, Endle CM, Hart LA, Haug PJ, Huff SM, Kaggal VC, Li D, Liu H, Marchant K, Masanz J, Miller T, Oniki TA, Palmer M, Peterson KJ, Rea S, Savova GK, Stancl CR, Sohn S, Solbrig HR, Suesse DB, Tao C, Taylor DP, Westberg L, Wu S, Zhuo N, Chute C (2013). Normalization and standardization of electronic health records for high-throughput phenotyping: the SHARPn consortium. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 20(e2), e341-8.
  9. Oniki TA, Coyle JF, Parker CG, Huff S (2014). Lessons learned in detailed clinical modeling at Intermountain Healthcare. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 21(6), 1076-81.
  10. Oniki TA, Zhuo N, Beebe CE, Liu H, Coyle JF, Parker CG, Solbrig HR, Marchant K, Kaggal VC, Chute CG, Huff S (2016). Clinical element models in the SHARPn consortium. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 23(2), 248-56.
  11. Friedman C, Huff SM, Hersh WR, Pattison-Gordon E, Cimino J (1995). The Canon Group's effort: working toward a merged model. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2(1), 4-18.
  12. Ahn S, Huff SM, Kim Y, Kalra (2013). Quality metrics for detailed clinical models. International journal of medical informatics, 82(5), 408-17.
  13. Chute CG, Huff S (2017). The Pluripotent Rendering of Clinical Data for Precision Medicine. Studies in health technology and informatics, 245, 337-340.
  14. Lin MC, Vreeman DJ, McDonald CJ, Huff S (2012). Auditing consistency and usefulness of LOINC use among three large institutions - using version spaces for grouping LOINC codes. Journal of biomedical informatics, 45(4), 658-66.
  15. Rea S, Pathak J, Savova G, Oniki TA, Westberg L, Beebe CE, Tao C, Parker CG, Haug PJ, Huff SM, Chute C (2012). Building a robust, scalable and standards-driven infrastructure for secondary use of EHR data: the SHARPn project. Journal of biomedical informatics, 45(4), 763-71.
  16. Subramanian A, Westra B, Matney S, Wilson PS, Delaney CW, Huff S, Huber (2008). Integrating the nursing management minimum data set into the logical observation identifier names and codes system. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 1148.
  17. Heras YZ, Mitchell JA, Williams MS, Brothman AR, Huff S (2009). Evaluation of LOINC for representing constitutional cytogenetic test result reports. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2009, 239-43.
  18. Lin MC, Vreeman DJ, McDonald CJ, Huff S (2010). Correctness of Voluntary LOINC Mapping for Laboratory Tests in Three Large Institutions. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2010, 447-51.
  19. Vreeman DJ, McDonald CJ, Huff S (2010). Representing Patient Assessments in LOINC®. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2010, 832-6.
  20. Welch SR, Huff S (2010). Cohort amplification: an associative classification framework for identification of disease cohorts in the electronic health record. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2010, 862-6.
  21. Chute CG, Pathak J, Savova GK, Bailey KR, Schor MI, Hart LA, Beebe CE, Huff S (2011). The SHARPn project on secondary use of Electronic Medical Record data: progress, plans, and possibilities. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2011, 248-56.
  22. Lin MC, Vreeman DJ, Huff S (2011). Investigating the semantic interoperability of laboratory data exchanged using LOINC codes in three large institutions. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2011, 805-14.
  23. Tao C, Parker CG, Oniki TA, Pathak J, Huff SM, Chute C (2011). An OWL meta-ontology for representing the Clinical Element Model. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2011, 1372-81.
  24. Li D, Endle CM, Murthy S, Stancl C, Suesse D, Sottara D, Huff SM, Chute CG, Pathak (2012). Modeling and executing electronic health records driven phenotyping algorithms using the NQF Quality Data Model and JBoss® Drools Engine. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2012, 532-41.
  25. Liu H, Wu ST, Li D, Jonnalagadda S, Sohn S, Wagholikar K, Haug PJ, Huff SM, Chute C (2012). Towards a semantic lexicon for clinical natural language processing. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2012, 568-76.
  26. Haug PJ, Wu X, Ferraro JP, Savova GK, Huff SM, Chute C (2014). Developing a section labeler for clinical documents. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2014, 636-44.
  27. Tripp JS, Duncan JD, Finch L, Huff S (2015). Completing Death Certificates from an EMR: Analysis of a Novel Public-Private Partnership. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2015, 1214-23.
  28. Lee J, Hulse NC, Wood GM, Oniki TA, Huff S (2017). Profiling Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) of Family Health History based on the Clinical Element Models. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2016, 753-762.
  29. Zhuo N, Rocha RA, Huff S (2003). The design and implementation of a picklist authoring tool. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 1061.
  30. Staes CJ, Huff SM, Tilley C, Narus SP, Sorensen JB, Evans R (2003). Development of an information model for solid organ transplantation. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 1015.
  31. Vreeman DJ, McDonald CJ, Huff S (2010). LOINC® - A Universal Catalog of Individual Clinical Observations and Uniform Representation of Enumerated Collections. International journal of functional informatics and personalised medicine, 3(4), 273-291.
  32. Matney SA, Heale B, Hasley S, Decker E, Frederiksen B, Davis N, Langford P, Ramey N, Huff S (2019). Lessons Learned in Creating Interoperable Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Profiles for Large-Scale Public Health Programs. Applied clinical informatics, 10(1), 87-95.
  33. Khalifa A, Mason CC, Garvin JH, Williams MS, Del Fiol G, Jackson BR, Bleyl SB, Alterovitz G, Huff S (2021). Interoperable genetic lab test reports: mapping key data elements to HL7 FHIR specifications and professional reporting guidelines. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 28(12), 2617-2625.
  34. Yeh CY, Peng SJ, Yang HC, Islam M, Poly TN, Hsu CY, Huff SM, Chen HC, Lin M (2021). Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) Applied to Microbiology: A National Laboratory Mapping Experience in Taiwan. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 11(9),
  35. Ingvar M, Blom MC, Winsnes C, Robinson G, Vanfleteren L, Huff (2021). On the Annotation of Health Care Pathways to Allow the Application of Care-Plans That Generate Data for Multiple Purposes. Frontiers in digital health, 3, 688218.
  36. Lario R, Hasley S, White SA, Eilbeck K, Soley R, Huff S, Kawamoto (2021). Utilization of BPM+ Health for the Representation of Clinical Knowledge: A Framework for the Expression and Assessment of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) Utilizing Existing and Emerging Object Management Group (OMG) Standards. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2020, 687-696.
  37. Blom MC, Khalid M, Van-Lettow B, Hutink H, Larsson S, Huff S, Ingvar (2020). Harmonization of the ICHOM Quality Measures to Enable Health Outcomes Measurement in Multimorbid Patients. Frontiers in digital health, 2, 606246.
  38. Haug PJ, Narus SP, Bledsoe J, Huff (2018). Promoting national and international standards to build interoperable clinical applications. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2018, 555-563.
  39. Morris AH, Horvat C, Stagg B, Grainger DW, Lanspa M, Orme J, Clemmer TP, Weaver LK, Thomas FO, Grissom CK, Hirshberg E, East TD, Wallace CJ, Young MP, Sittig DF, Suchyta M, Pearl JE, Pesenti A, Bombino M, Beck E, Sward KA, Weir C, Phansalkar S, Bernard GR, Thompson BT, Brower R, Truwit J, Steingrub J, Hiten RD, Willson DF, Zimmerman JJ, Nadkarni V, Randolph AG, Curley MAQ, Newth CJL, Lacroix J, Agus MSD, Lee KH, deBoisblanc BP, Moore FA, Evans RS, Sorenson DK, Wong A, Boland MV, Dere WH, Crandall A, Facelli J, Huff SM, Haug PJ, Pielmeier U, Rees SE, Karbing DS, Andreassen S, Fan E, Goldring RM, Berger KI, Oppenheimer BW, Ely EW, Pickering BW, Schoenfeld DA, Tocino I, Gonnering RS, Pronovost PJ, Savitz LA, Dreyfuss D, Slutsky AS, Crapo JD, Pinsky MR, James B, Berwick D (2022). Computer clinical decision support that automates personalized clinical care: a challenging but needed healthcare delivery strategy. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 30(1), 178-194.
  40. Lario R, Kawamoto K, Sottara D, Eilbeck K, Huff S, Del Fiol G, Soley R, Middleton (2023). A method for structuring complex clinical knowledge and its representational formalisms to support composite knowledge interoperability in healthcare. Journal of biomedical informatics, 137, 104251.
  41. James BC, Edwards DP, James AF, Bradshaw RL, White KS, Wood C, Huff (2017). An Efficient, Clinically-Natural Electronic Medical Record System that Produces Computable Data. EGEMS (Washington, DC), 5(3), 8.
  42. Slight SP, Berner ES, Galanter W, Huff S, Lambert BL, Lannon C, Lehmann CU, McCourt BJ, McNamara M, Menachemi N, Payne TH, Spooner SA, Schiff GD, Wang TY, Akincigil A, Crystal S, Fortmann SP, Vandermeer ML, Bates D (2015). Metadata Correction: Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records: Experiences From the Field and Future Opportunities. JMIR medical informatics, 3(3), e32.
  43. Slight SP, Berner ES, Galanter W, Huff S, Lambert BL, Lannon C, Lehmann CU, McCourt BJ, McNamara M, Menachemi N, Payne TH, Spooner SA, Schiff GD, Wang TY, Akincigil A, Crystal S, Fortmann SP, Bates D (2015). Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records: Experiences From the Field and Future Opportunities. JMIR medical informatics, 3(3), e30.

Review

  1. Iorga A, Velezis MJ, Marinac-Dabic D, Lario RF, Huff SM, Gore B, Mermel LA, Bailey LC, Skapik J, Willis D, Lee RE, Hurst FP, Gressler LE, Reed TL, Towbin R, Baskin K (2023). Venous Access: National Guideline and Registry Development (VANGUARD): Advancing Patient-Centered Venous Access Care Through the Development of a National Coordinated Registry Network. Journal of medical Internet research, 25, e43658.

Other

  1. Khalifa A, Mason CC, Garvin JH, Williams MS, Del Fiol G, Jackson BR, Bleyl SB, Huff S (2021). A qualitative investigation of biomedical informatics interoperability standards for genetic test reporting: benefits, challenges, and motivations from the testing laboratory's perspective. Genetics in medicine, 23(11), 2178-2185.
  2. Khalifa A, Mason CC, Garvin JH, Williams MS, Del Fiol G, Jackson BR, Bleyl SB, Huff S (2021). A qualitative study of prevalent laboratory information systems and data communication patterns for genetic test reporting. Genetics in medicine, 23(11), 2171-2177.
  3. Morris AH, Stagg B, Lanspa M, Orme J, Clemmer TP, Weaver LK, Thomas F, Grissom CK, Hirshberg E, East TD, Wallace CJ, Young MP, Sittig DF, Pesenti A, Bombino M, Beck E, Sward KA, Weir C, Phansalkar SS, Bernard GR, Taylor Thompson B, Brower R, Truwit JD, Steingrub J, Duncan Hite R, Willson DF, Zimmerman JJ, Nadkarni VM, Randolph A, Curley MAQ, Newth CJL, Lacroix J, Agus MSD, Lee KH, deBoisblanc BP, Scott Evans R, Sorenson DK, Wong A, Boland MV, Grainger DW, Dere WH, Crandall AS, Facelli JC, Huff SM, Haug PJ, Pielmeier U, Rees SE, Karbing DS, Andreassen S, Fan E, Goldring RM, Berger KI, Oppenheimer BW, Wesley Ely E, Gajic O, Pickering B, Schoenfeld DA, Tocino I, Gonnering RS, Pronovost PJ, Savitz LA, Dreyfuss D, Slutsky AS, Crapo JD, Angus D, Pinsky MR, James B, Berwick (2021). Enabling a learning healthcare system with automated computer protocols that produce replicable and personalized clinician actions. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 28(6), 1330-1344.