NLM’s Flatley Brennan to Receive AMIA’s Morris Collen Award
Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D., director of the National Library of Medicine, will be awarded the 2018 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence by the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).
The award is given each year at the AMIA Symposium in honor of Morris F. Collen, a pioneer in the field of medical informatics at Kaiser Permanente. It is presented to an individual whose personal commitment and dedication to medical informatics has made a lasting impression on the field.
Brennan is widely recognized for her abilities to repurpose commercial technologies to improve the safety and effectiveness of health service delivery systems, according to AMIA. She developed a first of its kind technology-based home care service for persons living with AIDS in the 1980s. She also worked to develop home care technologies to support elder caregivers, people recovering from cardiac surgery and patients with chronic heart disease. Her work had a profound impact on future development of technologies used for in-home chronic illness management.
She also spearheaded the biomedical informatics efforts that led to the federal requirement that electronic health records systems must safely and effectively include patient-generated and patient-sourced data. Patient access to information is now a core part of the CMS EHR incentive program.
Brennan has been elected to the American Academy of Nursing, the American College of Medical Informatics, the National Academy of Medicine, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She has also been honored with the AMIA Leadership Award and the AMIA Virginia K. Saba Award.