Kenneth E. Blick
Kenneth E. Blick is a professor in the Department of Pathology at the University
of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He has served as the director of laboratory
information systems there and has proposed, installed, and maintained computer
systems for the laboratories.
Dr. Blick’s anatomic
pathology/billing systems have generated nearly 50% of departmental revenue
and increased charge capture/billing for technical services by 40% over the
manual billing systems. His automated contract billing system handles billing
for all contract outreach services each month for the Oklahoma University
Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Blick’s anatomic
pathology computer system features a unique data repository for anatomic pathology
with more than 20 years of online data for essential ongoing
tissue pathology studies. He also serves as director of chemistry, point-of-care
testing, and immunoassay/endocrine laboratories at the OU
Medical Center.
Since
joining the faculty at OUHSC more than 24 years ago, Dr. Blick has taught computer
literacy, medical informatics, clinical pathology, and clinical chemistry to
medical students, pathology and radiology residents, and to medical technology
students. For five years, the medical technology program used Dr. Blick’s
textbook, Principles of Clinical Chemistry.
Dr. Blick has also been
active on a national level, having founded the Laboratory
Information Systems and Medical
Informatics Division of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.
He has also been active in developing standards for laboratory computerization;
he initiated and proposed the now universally accepted ASTM Standard for all
laboratory instrument/computer interfaces. Dr. Blick’s
many AACC activities over the years have included his serving as chairman of
the Texas Section, chairman of the LISMI Division, as well as chairman of the
Oklahoma Section of the American Chemical Society and four terms as chair of
the AACC/ACS Committee on Clinical Chemistry. He currently serves on the board
of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry.
Dr. Blick is also chairman
of the Oklahoma State Board of Tests for Alcohol and Drug Influence, an agency
overseeing all legal testing for the state of Oklahoma. In the clinical pathology
laboratory, Dr. Blick is also regarded as an expert in automated chemistry
and immunoassay techniques. Because of Dr. Blick’s expertise in laboratory
computerization and laboratory automation, he is invited frequently to speak
at regional, national, and international meetings on these topics.
He completed
his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Kentucky where he also earned
his doctorate in inorganic chemistry/analytical spectroscopy. Dr. Blick has
a bachelor’s degree in ACS chemistry and mathematics from
Western Kentucky University.
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