death_place death_date birth_place fields workplaces birth_date known_for article_title name alma_mater
washington d.c. , usa march 16 , 2009 silz , tyrol , austria medical informatics george of alabama at birmingham washington university , university of utah , university march 27 , 1941 father of scamc helmuth orthner
 helly orthner technical university of munich , university of pennsylvania
helmuth orthner

dr. helmuth f. `` helly '' orthner -lrb- march 27 , 1941 - march 16 , 2009 -rrb- was a pioneering american scientist in the field of medical informatics .
he was one of the founders of the symposium on computer applications in medical care -lrb- scamc -rrb- , which later grew into the american medical informatics association .
he was a fellow of the american college of medical informatics .
