Historically Important Electronic Medical Record Systems

The following Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systema 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.

• Akron General Hospital and IBM - Akron, Ohio
• Alberta Netcare - Alberta, Canada
• AMPATH medical record system (AMRS)
• Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) - US Department of Defense (DoD)
• Arthritis, Rheumatism, and Aging Medical Information System (ARAMIS) - Stanford University Department of Medicine, Stanford, California.
• Brigham Integrated Computing System (BICS) - Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
• Buenos Aires Hospital Network EHR System
• Care2x Integrated Healthcare Open Source Environment
• Center for Clinical Computing (CCC) - Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
• Cerner Millennium - Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO
• Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®)- 200 S Wacker Drive in Chicago
• ChartLogic EHR
• ClinicStation - M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
• Composite Health Care System (CHCS) - Original DoD EHR
• Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System - CHESS - developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Comchart EMR
• COmputer STored Ambulatory Record (COSTAR) - Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan, Boston, MA
• Diogene - University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
• Distributed Hospital Computer Program (DHCP) - Veterans Administration hospitals
• DSS Inc. "The VistA Experts"
• eMAR
• e-MDs
• eCHN - Toronto, Ontario Canada, The Hospital for Sick Children
• Eclipsys - "The Outcomes Company" - Atlanta Georgia
• EcMR
• ELIAS
• Epic Systems - Madison, WI
• First DataBank
• Follow-Up Care of Clinical HIV infection and AIDS (FUCHIA)
• Health Evaluation through Logical Programming (HELP) - LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT
• Hospital Italiano EHR System - Buenos Aires, Argentina
• ISABEL - Paddington, London
• Integrating Patient Generated Family Health History From Varied EHR Entry Portals - Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Itoiz Clinic EMR
• Janus Health - JanusOSSM - San Diego, CA
• Junzi No.1 Hospital Information System - PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
• Liang Zhang Han Expert System
• Lockheed-Martin / Technicon Data Systems (TDS) - El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, CA
• Maine General Health (MGH) EMR - One Patient, one chart to achieve interoperability standard
• MEDHOST EDIS
• MEDITECH (MIIS)
• MOSORIOT Medical Record System (MMRS)
• Novella EMR System
• NextGen
• OpenMRS
• OpenSDE
• Out-patient Medical Record (OMR) - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
• Palm-based Clinical Information System (PalmCIS)
• PalmSecure
• Patient Care Information System (PCIS) - Indian Health Service CIS system
• Problem-Knowledge Couplers
• Problem-Oriented Medical Information System (PROMIS) - Burlington, VT
• Regenstrief Medical Record System (RMRS) - Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, IN
• Risk Analysis and Security
• Three-layer Graph-based Model (3LGM) - University of Heidelberg/University of Leipzig, Germany
• Structured Data Entry
• Technicon Medical Information System (TMIS) - Eclipsys Corporatons, Atlanta, GA
• The Medical Record (TMR) - Duke University, Durham, NC
• THERESA CPR - Computer-based patient record system at Emory University
• Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) - Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
• WorldVistA