Known as the American Association of Medical Record Librarians
Several key principles of the Atanasoff–Berry Computer were conceived in during the winter of 1937–38 but it was built between 1939 and 1942.
ENIAC was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was capable of solving a full range of computing problems.
Gustav Wagner, a German Scientist in 1949, created the first professional organization for early informatics.
Dr. Arthur E. Rappoport presented his experience with the "McBee manual punch card for laboratory data" at the 1952 meeting of the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP).
Ledley and Lusted published a widely-read article in Science. They expressed hope that by harnessing computers, much of physicians’ work would become automated and that many human errors could therefore be avoided.
The origin of the term "medical informatics" may have originated from France.
Was established by Kaiser Permanente aiming to ‘‘begin to use computers in the practice of medicine.”
JAMA published the first article describing a laboratory computer system. This system, called the Laboratory Instrument Computer, was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Th National Library of Medicine launched the first large scale, computer based, retrospective search service available to the general public.
Clinical programming language developed from the Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System, where it was first developed and implemented.
International Medical Informatics Association established in 1967 as a technical committee of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It became an independent organization in 1987 and was established under Swiss law in 1989.
The precursor to the Internet, ARPANET was a large wide-area network created by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA).
Harvard Medical School debuted its Computer Stored Ambulatory Record (COSTAR) and Duke University began developing its own electronic health records software The Medical Record (TMR).
They are Artificial Intelligence(AI) medical projects. Since 1966 AI has had many periods where its research flourished and floundered, known as AI winters.
Online version called MEDLINE ("MEDLARS Online") became available as a way to do online searching of MEDLARS from remote medical libraries.
They are primitive computers. Appeared along with IBM's first personal computer which occupied a total of 16K of memory.
Early voice recognition prototype evolves into Dragon Dictation, used today by more than 150,000 doctors and caregivers. Its wide adoption illustrates that one early key to success in healthcare IT was a design built around doctors’ existing processes.
Completed in thirteen years with the goal of mapping all human genes.
Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.
Web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web developed at National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
PalmPilot PDA was the first truly handheld, widely used computing device.
Developed with the goal to connect all EHRs, health information organizations and government agencies.
Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), a nonprofit aiming to accelerate adoption of secure and interoperable health IT, begins certifying electronic health records systems to help providers choose quality products. Controversy emerges later over CCHIT’s close ties to the board of trustees of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a lobbying agency representing the interests of technology vendors.
Created an incentive program through Medicare for hospitals to adopt technology for EHRs.
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