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David P. Lawton
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- Lincoln, NE
- United States
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- State of Nebraska / Division of Public Health
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- Public Health Informatics Manager
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- David P. Lawton, RN, PhD
David Lawton is the Public Health Informatics Manager for the State of Nebraska. He has been working in the area of Electronic Health Records for more than 20 years. In Nebraska he serves on the Health Information Privacy and Security Committee (HISPC) and the eHealth Council. In 2008 Nebraska received a contract from HHS through the Office of the National Coordinator for continuing work on interstate collaboration of health IT related to privacy and security constraints. He managed the Nebraska component of that 10-state collaborative work. At the federal level, he is a member of the Population Health Technical Committee of the Health Information Technical Standards Panel (HITSP) and a voting member of the HITSP Panel. He represents Nebraska DHHS on the Panel. He is on the board for the Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC) and co-chairs the Privacy and Security, and Education Committees. In 2008 he was appointed as a Task Force Member of the National Governor’s Association to develop recommendations to address state privacy and security of health data collection and exchange.
Prior to his current assignment he was the Health Surveillance Section Administrator for the State of Nebraska. He served as the Health Alert Network Coordinator in the Bioterrorism Response Section where he coordinated the development of Nebraska’s Health Alert Network. He is the DHHS manager for and contributed to the development of the state wide Telehealth Network, a video conferencing network linking the Nebraska DPH to all hospitals and public health departments in Nebraska.
Prior to entering public service with the State of Nebraska, Dr. Lawton had a long and diverse career in nursing. He taught nursing for ten years, managed nursing at every management level in hospitals for eight years. His clinical practice spans ten years with work primarily in pediatric critical care.
At Clarkson College in Omaha, Nebraska he taught both graduate and undergraduate nursing and held the position of Dean. He was instrumental in developing distance education courses for graduate and undergraduate programs and expanded the use of technology for teaching. He continues to teach as an adjunct professor teaching in business, nursing and information technology programs.
Dr. Lawton’s health care career began with an associate’s degree in nursing in 1978. He received bachelors and masters degrees in nursing from the Medical College of Georgia where he received the dean’s award for the most influential paper of the year, “The Planned obsolesence of professional nursing”. He earned a PhD from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in higher education leadership. His dissertation was a study of the visionary leadership of Christian college presidents. His academic career began with a BA in Psychology from Covenant College.
Dr. Lawton is a patient advocate and promoter of professional nursing practice. He has encouraged and developed shared governance, professional management practices and servant leadership. He has a driving interest in electronic medical records, personal health records, and health care reform. His clinical practice spans private, city-county, state, federal, community, for-profit hospitals, and state public health. At every point he brought innovative applications of technology to improve patient care, customer service or management practice.
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