Medical Information Connected

Contact:
Riki Merrick

Location
200 Sausalito Blvd
Sausalito, CA 94965

Mailing address:
P.O. Box 2541
Carmichael, Ca 95609-2541

Vernetzt, LLC is a Public Health Informatics Consulting Company owned by Riki Merrick, MPH

Specializing in laboratory and public health related data exchange terminology and message specifications including Meaningful Use.

Vernetzt is striving towards standardization of laboratory and public health data elements to facilitate interoperability and data sharing to successfully link our health care world and provide means for timely Public Health notifications and interventions.

Our goal is to expand knowledge and use diverse talents to work with people on improving our community.

Specialties:

Support of standards development for LOINC and SNOMED, vocabulary development and maintenance, lead contact for multiple sites, and Laboratory Information System vendors, reference laboratories, software application evaluations, design of introductory materials (letter, brochure, presentation) for partner recruitment.

About Riki Merrick:

Licensed Physician in Germany.
Master in Public Health (MPH) from UC Davis 2004

Working with HL7, LOINC and SNOMED
APHL Consultant: Lead Terminologist for Informatics Program
NIST Consultant: Development of the test case data for lab related Meaningful Use testing
CDC Consultant: Support of the electronic data exchange for the Laboratory Response Network (LRN)

She participates in several national vocabulary harmonization projects in the Laboratory and Public Health domain:
Founding Co-Chair of the PHIN Lab Messaging-CoP
Planning Chair of the IHE Lab Domain Committee
interim Co-Chair of the HL7 Orders and Observations Working Group
Standards & Interoperabilty (S&I) Framework Initiatives:
&Founding Co-chair of Public Health Reporting Initiative (PHRI)
&Co-Chair Vocabulary Electronic Health Record system (EHR-S) Functional Requirements IG-Labs

and as participating member of:
HL7 Vocabulary, including the TermInfo project
HL7 Public Health Emergency and Response (PHER).
S&I Framework Laboratory Results Interface (LRI)
S&I Framework Laboratory Orders Interface (LOI)

Co-authored several HL7 implementation guides and two chapters in “Public Health Infomatics and Information Systems” 2nd Ed. a text book by Springer, 2013.

Commitments outside of work:
Fundraising Chair for Preserve Sutter Jensen Community Park
Secretary Carmichael Creek Neighborhood Association
MPH Alumni Board Member 2013-2014

For Fun:
Being outside – hiking or riding (bikes or horses).