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| − | == History ==
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| − | The company, founded in 1978 by Peter Goltra, develops tools to record, aggregate and present coded clinical concepts at the point of care. It has tried to help physicians have better access to 'relevant' patient information and improve the ways physicians can share that information with others. Goltra's efforts resulted in the development of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEDCIN MEDCIN] engine which is at the heart of every other Medicomp EMR product.
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| − | == The MEDCIN Engine ==
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| − | This engine is a knowledge engine which provides integrated physician and nursing documentation, clinical decision support, and patient management, mapped to reference terminology standards. MEDCIN combines a database of medical concepts with methods for presenting and documenting relevant symptoms, history, physical findings, tests, diagnoses and therapy for different patient presentations. It also includes support for reference and billing terminologies including [[CPT]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders DSM], [[ICD]], [[LOINC]], [[RxNorm]], [[SNOMED]] and others, as well as for evaluation and management (E&M) coding.
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| − | This knowledge base is formed by observing and listening to clinicians as they practice in the real world at Cornell, Harvard and Johns Hopkins, along with other medical centers, including the Department of Defense Military Health System.
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| − | The first prototype, which ran on an IBM Series 1 computer, took 45 minutes to complete some simple routines. The same process takes only milliseconds nowadays.
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| − | One example of an [[EMR]] system which uses this engine is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Csx8QxzYwo Quippe] by MEDIComp.
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| − | == Commercial Significance of MEDCIN ==
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| − | MEDCIN is in use by 7,000 to 9,000 [[U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Initiatives|U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)]] physicians. In the private sector, [[Epic Systems]], [[Allscripts|Allscripts Healthcare Solutions]] and WebMD Corp. have products which use MEDCIN
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| − | == References ==
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| − | # [http://www.medicomp.com Medicomp company website]
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| − | # [http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/medcin-seeks-convert-dod-deal-commercial-success MEDCIN seeks to convert DoD deal into commercial success February 11, 2005]
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