A team of researchers, including Dr. Bradley Malin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics received the Homer R. Warner Award at the 2014 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, for their paper, "SOEMPI: A Secure Open Enterprise Master Patient Index Software Toolkit for Private Record Linkage" The Homer R. Warner Award is named for Homer R. Warner, MD, PhD, a pioneer in the field of informatics and the founder of the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Utah. A cash prize is awarded for the paper chosen at the AMIA Annual Symposium that best describes approaches to improving computerized information acquisition, knowledge data acquisition and management, and experimental results documenting the value of these approaches. The candidate papers are drawn from the distinguished paper nominees recommended by the AMIA Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee, and the selection of the recipient is made by the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics.