Scott P. Narus

Scott P. Narus, PhD, MS

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Adjunct - Biomedical Informatics

Research Interests

  • Clinical Decision Support Systems
  • Consumer Health Informatics
  • Electronic Health Record Systems
  • Health Information Exchange Networks
  • Health Information Technology
  • Federated Biomedical Query Systems

Dr. Scott P. Narus earned his PhD in Medical Informatics from the University of Utah and his MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona. He is an Associate Professor (Clinical) in the University of Utah’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing. Dr. Narus served as a Medical Informatics Director for Intermountain Healthcare and as the chief clinical systems architect for Intermountain from 2012 to 2021. He also led architectural development for the Health Services Platform Consortium, a healthcare provider and industry partnership seeking to promote organizational and system interoperability through open, standards-based services.

His areas of expertise include the following: systems design and architecture; designing tools for creating point-of-care clinical data entry and review applications; object-oriented design methods for biomedical information systems, particularly focusing on modular applications and function reusability; incorporating guidelines into the clinical documentation process in order to implement best practices and decrease data entry requirements; providing links to clinically relevant information based on specific knowledge about a patient; biomedical data modeling and terminology; consumer health informatics; and improving Health Information Exchange and system interoperability.

From 2006 to 2012, Dr. Narus was a full-time member of the BMI faculty. He directed the FURTHeR project, which is part of the informatics infrastructure for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Utah. In 2009, he was awarded a National Institute of Health Grant to develop a statewide Master Person Index, working with Intermountain Healthcare, Utah Department of Health, and the Utah Health Information Network.

Dr. Narus was a senior medical informaticist at Intermountain Healthcare from 1994 to 2006. Prior to that he worked as a research assistant in the Anesthesiology Bioengineering Lab at the University of Utah during his PhD program. He is a member of the the American Medical Informatics Association.

“Making an impact on the quality of life for individuals and the community motivates me tremendously. I found that I could apply my knowledge and skills in computer science and engineering to the biomedical field to have a real and significant effect on patient health and the delivery of care. Biomedical Informatics opens up a wide variety of possibilities for addressing clinical, public health, and biomedical research. Because of the dynamic nature of both information technology and medicine, the field also satisfies my interest in continuous learning.”

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=63CxAxwAAAAJ

Education History

Doctoral Training University of Utah
 PhD
University of Arizona
 MS
Undergraduate University of Notre Dame
 BS

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Bradshaw RL, Kawamoto K, Kaphingst KA, Kohlmann WK, Hess R, Flynn MC, Nanjo CJ, Warner PB, Shi J, Morgan K, Kimball K, Ranade-Kharkar P, Ginsburg O, Goodman M, Chambers R, Mann D, Narus SP, Gonzalez J, Loomis S, Chan P, Monahan R, Borsato EP, Shields DE, Martin DK, Kessler CM, Del Fiol G (2021). GARDE: a standards-based clinical decision support platform for identifying population health management cohorts. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 29(5), 928-936. (Read full article)
  2. Kawamoto K, Kukhareva PV, Weir C, Flynn MC, Nanjo CJ, Martin DK, Warner PB, Shields DE, Rodriguez-Loya S, Bradshaw RL, Cornia RC, Reese TJ, Kramer HS, Taft T, Curran RL, Morgan KL, Borbolla D, Hightower M, Turnbull WJ, Strong MB, Chapman WW, Gregory T, Stipelman CH, Shakib JH, Hess R, Boltax JP, Habboushe JP, Sakaguchi F, Turner KM, Narus SP, Tarumi S, Takeuchi W, Ban H, Wetter DW, Lam C, Caverly TJ, Fagerlin A, Norlin C, Malone DC, Kaphingst KA, Kohlmann WK, Brooke BS, Del Fiol G (2021). Establishing a multidisciplinary initiative for interoperable electronic health record innovations at an academic medical center. JAMIA Open, 4(3), ooab041. (Read full article)
  3. Hodge CM, Narus SP, Stoddard G (2021). Developing and Validating a Model for Detecting Longitudinal Inconsistencies in the Electronic Problem List. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2020, 563-572. (Read full article)
  4. Linder LA, Newman AR, Stegenga K, Chiu YS, Wawrzynski SE, Kramer H, Weir C, Narus S, Altizer R (2020). Feasibility and acceptability of a game-based symptom-reporting app for children with cancer: perspectives of children and parents. Support Care Cancer, 29(1), 301-310. (Read full article)
  5. Colicchio TK, Borbolla D, Colicchio VD, Scammon DL, Del Fiol G, Facelli JC, Bowes WA 3rd, Narus SP (2019). Looking Behind the Curtain: Identifying Factors Contributing to Changes on Care Outcomes During a Large Commercial EHR Implementation. EGEMS (Wash DC), 7(1), 21. (Read full article)
  6. Colicchio TK, Del Fiol G, Scammon DL, Facelli JC, Bowes WA 3rd, Narus SP (2018). Comprehensive methodology to monitor longitudinal change patterns during EHR implementations: a case study at a large health care delivery network. J Biomed Inform, 83, 40-53. (Read full article)
  7. Hodge CM, Narus SP (2018). Electronic problem lists: a thematic analysis of a systematic literature review to identify aspects critical to success. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 25(5), 603-613. (Read full article)
  8. Colicchio TK, Del Fiol G, Scammon DL, Bowes WA 3rd, Facelli JC, Narus SP (2017). Development and classification of a robust inventory of near real-time outcome measurements for assessing information technology interventions in health care. J Biomed Inform, 73, 62-75. (Read full article)
  9. Colicchio TK, Facelli JC, Del Fiol G, Scammon DL, Bowes WA 3rd, Narus SP (2016). Health information technology adoption: Understanding research protocols and outcome measurements for IT interventions in health care. J Biomed Inform, 63, 33-44. (Read full article)
  10. Duncan J, Eilbeck K, Narus SP, Clyde S, Thornton S, Staes C (2015). Building an Ontology for Identity Resolution in Healthcare and Public Health. Online J Public Health Inform, 7(2), e219. (Read full article)
  11. Hodge CM, Kuttler KG, Bowes WA 3rd, Narus SP (2014). Problem management module: an innovative system to improve problem list workflow. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2014, 661-70. (Read full article)
  12. Wilcox AB, Shen S, Dorr DA, Hripcsak G, Heermann L, Narus SP (2012). Improving access to longitudinal patient health information within an emergency department. Appl Clin Inform, 3(3), 290-300. (Read full article)
  13. Gouripeddi R, Warner PB, Mo P, Levin JE, Srivastava R, Shah SS, de Regt D, Kirkendall E, Bickel J, Korgenski EK, Precourt M, Stepanek RL, Mitchell JA, Narus SP, Keren R (2012). Federating clinical data from six pediatric hospitals: process and initial results for microbiology from the PHIS+ consortium. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2012, 281-90. (Read full article)
  14. Livne OE, Schultz ND, Narus SP (2011). Federated querying architecture with clinical & translational health IT application. J Med Syst, 35(5), 1211-24. (Read full article)
  15. Olola CH, Narus S, Nebeker J, Poynton M, Hales J, Rowan B, LeSieur H, Zumbrennen C, Edwards AA, Crawford R, Amundsen S, Kabir Y, Atkin J, Newberry C, Young J, Hanifi T, Risenmay B, Sorensen T, Evans RS (2011). The perception of medical professionals and medical students on the usefulness of an emergency medical card and a continuity of care report in enhancing continuity of care. Int J Med Inform, 80(6), 412-20. (Read full article)
  16. Livne OE, Schultz ND, Narus SP (2011). Federated Querying Architecture with Clinical & Translational Health IT Application. J Med Syst.
  17. Narus SP, Srivastava R, Gouripeddi R, Livne OE, Mo P, Bickel JP, de Regt D, Hales JW, Kirkendall E, Stepanek RL, Toth J, Keren R (2011). Federating clinical data from six pediatric hospitals: process and initial results from the PHIS+ Consortium. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2011, 994-1003. (Read full article)
  18. He S, Hurdle JF, Botkin JR, Narus SP (2010). Integrating a Federated Healthcare Data Query Platform With Electronic IRB Information Systems. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2010, 291-5. (Read full article)
  19. Huser V, Narus SP, Rocha RA (2010). Evaluation of a flowchart-based EHR query system: a case study of RetroGuide. J Biomed Inform, 43(1), 41-50. (Read full article)
  20. Bradshaw RL, Matney S, Livne OE, Bray BE, Mitchell JA, Narus SP (2009). Architecture of a federated query engine for heterogeneous resources. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2009, 70-4. (Read full article)
  21. Hall ES, Poynton MR, Narus SP, Jones SS, Evans RS, Varner MW, Thornton SN (2009). Patient-level analysis of outcomes using structured labor and delivery data. J Biomed Inform, 42(4), 702-9. (Read full article)
  22. Del Fiol G, Haug PJ, Cimino JJ, Narus SP, Norlin C, Mitchell JA (2008). Effectiveness of topic-specific infobuttons: a randomized controlled trial. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 15(6), 752-9. (Read full article)

Book Chapter

  1. Wilcox AB, Narus SP, Vawdry DK (2013). Software Engineering for Health Care and Biomedicine. In Shortliffe EH, Cimino JJ (Eds.), Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (4th Edition, pp. 185-210). New York: Springer-Verlag.
  2. Narus SP (2013). Technical Infrastructure to Support Healthcare. In Staggers N, Nelson R (Eds.), Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach (1st Edition, pp. 197-210). Elsevier.
  3. Meystre SM, Narus SP, Mitchell JA (2012). Clinical Research in the Post-Genomic Era. In Richesson RL, Andrews JE (Eds.), Clinical Research Informatics (1st Edition, pp. 113-131). New York-London: Springer.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Matney SA, Bradshaw RL, Livne OE, Bray BE, Mitchell JA, Narus SP (2011). Developing a Semantic Framework for Clinical and Translational Research. 2011 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, San Francisco, 32-36.

Letter

  1. Duncan J, Narus SP, Clyde S, Eilbeck K, Thornton S, Staes C (2015). Birth of identity: understanding changes to birth certificates and their value for identity resolution. [Letter to the editor]. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 22(e1), e120-9. (Read full article)