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Dr. Rose Kenny - Her Professional Mission

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Dr. Rose Kenny owns and operates the Family Care Center in Redmond, Oregon, and has been practicing there since 2002. Dr. Rose Kenny is Board Certified in Family Practice and in Clinical Informatics, and is currently working toward her Masters degree in Biomedical Informatics.

Dr Rose Kenny

Her professional mission as a doctor, Dr. Rose Kenny says, is to combine clinical practice with Informatics, which is generally defined as information science, and the processing, storage and retrieval of data. “Dr. Rose Kenny an expert with her electronic medical record system, which she has optimized,” said Dr. Adam P. Angeles, in speaking of Dr. Kenny. “I am impressed how thorough she is with regard to her clinical diagnosis and treatment plans.”

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) developed the formal definition of biomedical informatics as an “interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health.”

The AMIA established the core competencies that drive the study of biomedical informatics. These include acquiring professional perspective, understanding and analyzing specific biomedical problems in terms of data, information and knowledge, and producing solutions.

Dr. Rose Kenny has studied medicine in the United States and in Germany. She received her medical degree from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1995, did her residency in Family Practice at the Eastern Maine Medical Center, and received a Fellowship at the Spokane Family Medicine Obstetrics. Dr. Rose Kenny received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College, where she graduated with honors.