Historically Important Electronic Medical Record Systems
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The following electronic medical record (EMR) systems are among the first kind ever developed. Each of the following systems added key information to our current understanding of how EMRs can improve the cost, quality, and efficiency of the care delivered within the modern health care system.
Year | System | Summary | Country |
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1972 | MYCIN | Developed by Edward Shortlife at Stanford University as a consultation system that focused on appropriate management of patients who have infections. Research conducted at Stanford Medical School on therapy selection for patients with meningitis found that MYCIN gave an acceptable therapy in about 69% of the cases, which compared favorably with that offered by experts in infectious diseases. MYCIN was a factor in improving research and development of knowledge-based systems and the commercialization of the rule-based approach in a variety of nonmedical fields. | United States |
1980 | HCS Interactant | Joe Fahey and Joe Manzi installed the world’s first hospital information system in 1969. Later they incorporated first clinical system. They developed ONC-CCHIT Certified EMR. HCS Interactant has an integrated platform of clinical and financial, EMR module interoperable with four other modules which are Revenue Cycle, Financial, Mobile, Insight totally exceeding the expectations of facilities across the spectrum of care including long-term care, long-term acute care, inpatient, outpatient, behavioral health, and rehabilitation. | United States |
1999 | ADP AdvancedMD | An all-in-one medical software for private practices that unifies EHR, billing and scheduling software. EHR software ensures accuracy of health and medical records. | United States |
1966 | Akron General Hospital and IBM | Developed with aim of eliminating paperwork. Key Features include system to remind nursing staff of drug orders. | United States |
2009 | American Reinvestment Act of 2009 | Mandating policy change both investment and implementation of EMR technology. To provide financial incentives to instigate societal movement towards EMR technology. | United States |
2003 | Alberta Netcare | Canada's first Province wide EMR | Canada |
1982 | Allscripts | Practice management System, mainly for private practices, Developed by Medic Computing Systems (later acquired by Allscripts) | United States |
2006 | athenaClinicals | It was launched by AthenaHealth as the "first economically sustainable, service-based" EMR. It is web-based/ cloud-based. | United States |
1995 | Rayavaran Dynamic Medical Objects and Documents (DMOD) | Iran's first windows-based EMR | Iran |
1999 | Amazing Charts | Developed by Jonathan Bertman for his private practice, later adopted by many others due to easy usability | United States |
2001 | AMPATH medical record system (AMRS) | Sub-Saharan Africa's first electronic medical record system for the comprehensive management of the clinical care of patients infected with HIV. Implemented at primary care level | Kenya |
2001 | OSCAR McMaster | open source browser-based EMR system developed by McMaster University | Canada |
2001 | Hospital OS | Hospital Management Software to support small rural hospitals in Thailand | Thailand |
2001 | T SystemEV | Emergency Department Information System based on T-Sheet charting | United States |
2006 | ART-EMR | Touchscreen input with Direct 48V DC powered systems with unique patient ID system. | Malawi |
Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) | US Department of Defense (DoD) | United States | |
1975 | Arthritis, Rheumatism, and Aging Medical Information System (ARAMIS) | Stanford University Department of Medicine, Stanford, California. | United States |
Brigham Integrated Computing System (BICS) | Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA | United States | |
Buenos Aires Hospital Network EHR System | Argentina | ||
Care2x Integrated Healthcare Open Source Environment | |||
Center for Clinical Computing (CCC) | Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA | United states | |
Centricity EMR | GE Healthcare | United States | |
1979 | Cerner | Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO | United States |
Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) | 200 S Wacker Drive in Chicago | United States | |
1994 | ChartLogic EHR | Chartlogic mission is to make doctor’s job easier. They create tools that mimic doctor's work but now they will be able to work faster and more efficiently. Chartlogic Corporate office in Salt Lake City, Utah. | United States |
ClearPractice | |||
Meridian EMR | |||
Crystal Practice Management | |||
Micro MD | |||
Medical Mastermind | |||
1999 | ClinicStation | M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX | United States |
Composite Health Care System (CHCS) | Original DoD EHR | ||
1987 | Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System - CHESS | Developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison | United states |
1991 | Comchart EMR | Comchart EMR - is designed to minimize the amount of time a physician spends “documenting,” while giving them the tools they need to understand the medical needs of their patients and practice.North Chelmsford, MA | United States |
1968 | Computer Stored Ambulatory Record (COSTAR) | Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan, Boston, MA | United States |
1971 | Computer Aids in the Physician's Office | Project by Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) aimed at automated patient-history taking at private physicians' offices | United States |
1997 | CureMD | ||
1978 | Diogene | University Hospital, Geneva | Switzerland |
1983 | Distributed Hospital Computer Program (DHCP) | Veterans Health Administration | United States |
DSS Inc. | "The VistA Experts" | ||
1999 | eClinicalWorks | Comprehensive electronic health record solution and unified practice management. | United States |
eMAR | |||
1996 | e-MDs | It was started by a group of Family Practice physicians (Dr. David Winn and colleagues) in Austin, Texas | United States |
eCHN | Toronto, Ontario Canada, The Hospital for Sick Children | Canada | |
Eclipsys | "The Outcomes Company" - Atlanta Georgia. In 2010, the company had merged into Allscripts | United States | |
EcMR | |||
ELIAS | |||
1979 | Epic Systems | Judith Faulkner launched Human Services Computing Inc., which later became Epic Systems, at Madison, WI. | United States |
1992 | EpicCare | EPIC released the first Windows-based EMR called EpicCare. | United States |
2003 | e-Sushrut | First Hospital Management System developed by the Center for Advance Computing (CDAC), Govt of India. | India |
First DataBank | |||
Follow-Up Care of Clinical HIV infection and AIDS (FUCHIA) | |||
1999 | FreeMED | It is an open source EMR based on LAMP | United States |
1998 | Greenway Medical technologies, Inc – PrimeSUITE | Carrollton, GA | United States |
Health Evaluation through Logical Programming (HELP) | LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT | United States | |
Hospital Italiano EHR System | - Buenos Aires | Argentina | |
1961 | Hospital Computer Project | The initial project at the MGH developed by Bolt Beranek and Newman(BBN). Which later let to development of MUMPS. | United States |
2001 | Isabel | - Paddington, London | United Kingdom |
Integrating Patient Generated Family Health History From Varied EHR Entry Portals | Brigham and Women's Hospital | ||
UroChartEHR | |||
Itoiz Clinic EMR | |||
Janus Health - JanusOSSM | - San Diego, CA | United States | |
Junzi No.1 Hospital Information System | - PLA General Hospital, Beijing, | China | |
Liang Zhang Han Expert System | |||
1970 | Lockheed-Martin / Technicon Data Systems (TDS) | - El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, CA | United States |
2005 | Lorenzo patient record systems | Lorenzo was an EMR provided as part of the United Kingdom government’s National Program for IT (NHS Connecting for Health) in the NHS. Ultimately, the program was dismantled, and is considered one of the most expensive healthcare IT failures | United Kingdom |
Maine General Health (MGH) EMR | One Patient, one chart to achieve interoperability standard | ||
McKesson Practice Partner | |||
1999 | MedAptus | Revenue Cycle Management / professional Clinical Charge capture system. Enables hospital charges to be captured at the point of service with ease | United States |
1997 | MEDHOST EDIS | ||
1968 | Meditech | A comprehensive electronic medical record that encompasses all aspects of healthcare related technologies and provides a total solution to meet the demands of Meaningful Use | United States |
1978 | Medicomp Systems | ||
MedicsDocAssistant Electronic Health Records System | |||
1995 | MediNotes | Des Moines, IA | United States |
MOSORIOT Medical Record System (MMRS) | |||
Novella EMR System | Mumbai | India | |
2001 | NextGen | Horsham, Pennsylvania | United States |
OpenEHR | Future-proof and flexible | ||
OpenEMR | |||
2004 | OpenMRS | ||
2003 | OpenSDE | ||
2002 | OpenVista | California | United States |
Optum Physician EMR | web-based | United States | |
1989 | Out-patient Medical Record (OMR) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA | United States |
2002 | Palm-based Clinical Information System (PalmCIS) | ||
PalmSecure | |||
1969 | Patient Care Information System (PCIS) | Indian Health Service CIS system | |
2007 | Practice Fusion | Free, cloud based EHR system for Private Physicians and Medical Peofessionals | United States |
1989 | Praxis EMR System | Template-free EMR | United States |
Problem-Knowledge Couplers | |||
1976 | Problem-Oriented Medical Information System (PROMIS) | Burlington, VT | United States |
2002 | PrognoCIS EMR | Cloud-Based EMR | United States |
1972 | Regenstrief Medical Record System (RMRS) | Reginstrief Foundation, Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, IN | United States |
Risk Analysis and Security | |||
Three-layer Graph-based Model | (3LGM) - University of Heidelberg/University of Leipzig | Germany | |
2003 | Satellife | PDA based EMR used in Uganada | Uganda |
1994 | SOAPware | ||
Structured Data Entry | |||
1965 | Technicon Medical Information System (TMIS) | Eclipsys Corporatons, Atlanta, GA | United States |
1969 | The Medical Record (TMR) | - Duke University, Durham, NC | |
1983 | THERESA CPR | Computer-based patient record system at Emory University | |
1982 | Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) | - Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | |
1988 | Wellsoft Corporation - Wellsoft EDIS | Somerset, New Jersey | United States |
2002 | WorldVistA | open source | |
1997 | SRS Soft | - Montvale NJ | United States |
Sage Intergy EHR | – Tampa, FL | United States | |
2012 | Skycare | Santa Ana, CA | United States |
1993 | NueMD By Nuesoft | ||
mmfEMR | |||
2008 | GNU Health | opensource EMR and HIS | |
1997 | Athenahealth | cloud-based | United States |
2003 | MMF EMR- Newyork, NY | Free, Web-based EMR allowing doctors to submit pre-op data to the facility via cloud-based forms, existing servers or simply fax. Founded by MMF Systems. | United States |
2011 | FollowMyHealth | Patient Access Portal. Founded by Jardogs in Springfield, Illinois. | United States |
1980 | Healthland | Nationwide provider of comprehensive healthcare information systems for rural and critical access hospitals. Founded in Glenwood, Minnesota. | United States |
2010 | Vitera healthcare solutions | ||
3M Helath informatic systems | |||
Earlier Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Tools | |||
2000 | DocuTAP | Urgent Care EMR | United States |
2012 | E-Health Record International | “Advancing Global Health Through Mobile Cloud Computing.” | United States |
2014 | Healthkit | Mobile healthcare app | United States |
2009 | CHAS-IBM | Integration of alternate health care systems | United States |
2013 | RxVault.in | Personalized Health Record | India |
2014 | Indian Health Service Electronic Health Record | Indian Health Service Electronic Health Record | India |
2014 | Towards a Egyptian Medical Record | Egypt TBA | Egypt |