MEDIComp Systems

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History

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. His efforts resulted in the development of MEDCIN engine which is populated with relationships between clinical concepts and information.


The MEDCIN Engine

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®, DSM, ICD, LOINC®, RxNorm, Snomed CT® and others, as well as for evaluation and management (E&M) coding.

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.