HISTORY OF HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY

HISTORY OF

HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY

AND EVOLUTION OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD

The 1st medical records emerged. Healthcare profetionals began to use medical records to document details, complications, and outcomes of patient care.

1920s

The American College of Surgeons established the Association of Record Librarians of North America, which sought to standardaize information on medical records. The ARLNA changed its name and is now known as the American HEalth Information Management Association.

1928

Technological innovations such as he computer led to new approaches to health information management, which brought with it the standardization and sharing of medical records

1960s

Medicare and Medicaid were introduced and drove the development of healthcare information system

1965

Electronic medical records were used in over 70 hospitals and clinical information projects.

1965

Lockheed Corporation created eclypsis, a computerized physician ordering system.

1971

A healthcare information system built by The University Medical Center in Burlington, Vermont, forst rolled out to the gynecology unit.

1971

The Regenstri of Institute in Indianapolis created the Regenstriof Medical Record System

1972

The Veterans Health Information System and Technology Architecture was ready for public use. The federal government started to invest in healthcare information technology with VisTa.

1980s

Personal computers hit the retail market, they're smaller and more affordable and they brcame a central source of information for hospitals.

1980s

The Master Patient Index was first introduced. The MPI kept track of patients and their medical data

1980s

Dragon system developed a voice recognition prototype. It eventually becomes a tool to enter patient information into healthcare information systems more easily.

1982

The Institute of medicine begin studying health records and the benefits of electronic medical records.

MID 1980s

LATE 1980s

Windows-based software and personal computers became prominent in physician offices.

1990

Tim Benners-Lee established the World Wide Web.

A study was published that found security issues, lack of standards and cost were the primary barriers to adopting electronic health records at the time.

1991

1994

The World Health Organization adopted the ICD-00 coding standard.

The Institute of Medicine projected that "between 44,000 and 90,000 hopitalized Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical errors"

2000

In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush highlighted the importance of information technology in healthcare and called for computerized health records.

2004

President Barack Obama signed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health. Act as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act- meaning 70% of patients care providers must adopt electronic health records by 2014.

2009

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology began working with the nation's 62 Regional Extention Centers to help healthcare providers adopt and implement electronic healthcare record system.

2011

2015

Electronic health record adoption doubled since 2008.

It's forecasted that healthcare organization will spend $1.5 trillion on technology.

2018