Bill Detmer, MD, MSc Academic projects Position & Affiliation Education Professional Interests Contact Information Selected Publications

Academic projects

Software & content

• WebMedline -- the first Medline system on the Web
  • WebMedline 4.0 (registration required) -- "my journals", links to full text journals and more...
  • Ovid Web Gateway -- product derived in part from WebMedline
  • References on WebMedline

• MedWeaver -- integrating medical diagnosis, literature searching, and web exploration
  • Articles (1) (2) describing MedWeaver.
  • Commercial version available from Unbound Medicine

• Diagnostic Testing -- From Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests
  • Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, 3nd edition

White papers, Questionnaires, Talks, & Handouts

• White Papers
  • SHINE: Bringing the Medical Center to the Community

• Questionnaires
  • Computers in Medical Care Survey

• Informatics Talks & Handouts
  • Selected Medical Resources on the Internet
  • MEDLINE on the Web: Ten Questions to Ask When Evaluating a Web-Based Service
  • The World Wide Web and the Electronic Medical Record
  • Getting Connected to the Internet
  • Internet & World Wide Web Primer

• Clinical Talks & Handouts (old)
  • Outpatient Management of Urinary Tract Infections
  • Tuberculosis: Prevention & Treatment
  • Tuberculosis Quiz

Positions & Affiliation

• President, Unbound Medicine, Inc
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, University of Viriginia
• Co-chair, AMIA Internet Working Group (1996-1998)
• Vice President, Ovid Technologies, Inc (1997-1999)

Contact Information

	email:  
		bdetmer@virginia.edu

Education

• BA & Morehead Scholar. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• MD, University of California-San Francisco
• Primary Care Internal Medicine Resident, University of California-San Francisco
• General Internal Medicine Fellow, University of California-San Francisco
• M.Sc. and Postdoctoral Fellow, Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University

Professional Interests

Research

• Medical Informatics
  • Information retrieval
  • Knowledge management 
  • Decision support
• Medical Decision-Making
• Diagnostic Testing

Clinical

• Preventive Medicine
• Health Promotion

Educational

• Medical Informatics Curriculum Development
• General Internal Medicine Curriculum Development

Selected Publications

Books & Chapters

Third Edition

Nicoll D, McPhee SJ, Pigone M,  Detmer WM, Chou TM.  Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests. McGraw-Hill, 2001.

 

Second Edition Table of Contents

Nicoll D, McPhee SJ, Chou TM, Detmer WM Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests. Appleton & Lange, 1996.

No abstract available

Detmer WM, Nicoll D. Diagnostic Diagnostic Testing and Medical Decision Making. In: Tierney LM, McPhee SJ, Papadakis MA (eds). Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 1996. Appleton & Lange, 1996.

Abstract 

Middleton B, Detmer WM, Musen MA. Diagnostic Decision Support. In: Osheroff J (ed). Computers in Clinical Practice: Managing Patients, Information, and Communication. American College of Physicians. 1995; 59-76.

 

No abstract available

Detmer WM, McPhee SJ, Nicoll D, Chou TM Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests. Appleton & Lange, 1992.

Articles & Abstracts

Abstract

Cork RD, Detmer WM, Friedman CP. Development and initial validation of an instrument to measure physicians' use of, knowledge about, and attitudes toward computers. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1998;5(2):164.

Abstract

Detmer WM, Barnett GO, Hersh WR. MedWeaver: Integrating Decision Support, Literature Searching, and Web Exploration using the UMLS Metathesaurus. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp 1997;490.

Abstract

Purcell GP, Detmer WM, Davidoff F. Journal Extracts: Task-Oriented Views of the Medical Literature. AMIA Fall Symposium, 1997.

Abstract

Detmer WM, Shortliffe EH. Using the Internet to Improve Knowledge Diffusion in Medicine. Communications of the ACM August 1997.

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Detmer WM, Shortliffe EH. WebMedline: Transforming Medline into a hypertext environment with links to full-text documents. Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Fall Symposium. 1996; 933.

No abstract available

Purcell GP, Detmer WM, Heycke TE, Shortliffe EH. Context-based searching of the full-text clinical literature. Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Annual Fall Symposium. 1996;931.

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Detmer WM. Interlinking medical content on the Internet: The need for unique document identifiers. AMIA Spring Congress. Kansas City, June 1996.

No abstract available

Cork RD, Detmer WM, Friedman CP. Academic Radiologists and Computers: Use and Attitudes. Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology. Denver, 1996.

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Detmer WM, Shortliffe EH. A model of clinical query management that supports integration of biomedical information over the World Wide Web. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, New Orleans, LA,1995;898-902.

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Shiffman S, Detmer WM, Lane CD, Fagan LM. A Continuous-Speech Interface to a Decision-Support System: I. Techniques to Accommodate for Misrecognized Input. J Am Med Informatics Assoc 1995;2:36-55.

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Detmer WM, Shiffman S, Wyatt JC, Friedman CP, Lane CD, & Fagan LM. A Continuous-Speech Interface to a Decision-Suppport System: II. An Evaluation Using a Wizard-of-Oz Experimental Paradigm. J Am Med Informatics Assoc 1995;2:46-57.

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Detmer WM, Friedman CP. Academic Physicians' Assessment of the Effects of Computers on Health Care. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, Washington D.C., 1994;558.

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McPhee SJ, Detmer WM. Office-based interventions to improve delivery of cancer prevention services by primary care physicians. Cancer 1993;1100-12.

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Wyatt JC, Detmer WM, Fagan LM. Design and Evaluation of Multimedia Stimuli to Evoke Clinical Concepts. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, Washington D.C.,1993;834-838.

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Fordham D; McPhee SJ; Bird JA; Rodnick JE; Detmer WM. The Cancer Prevention Reminder System. Md Computing, 1990 Sep-Oct, 7(5):289-95.