Chunyu yi

Take It Back To Day One

By brittany.scruggs89
  • 2017 BCE

    Between 206 BCE and 8 ADE

    Between 206 BCE and 8 ADE
    Chunyu Yi keeps the first known medical record.

  • Between 1790 and 1821

    Between 1790 and 1821
    Some of America's earliest hospitals began keeping patient records, including the New York Hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

  • 1860's

    1860's
    Physicians treating Civil War soldiers keep standardized records.

  • 1917

    1917
    The American College of Surgeons (ACS) develops a hospital standardization program.

  • 1970's

    1970's
    Dr. Lawrence L. Weed and Jan Schultz develop a medical record software program called PROMIS (Problem-Oriented Medical Information System).

  • 1990's

    1990's
    The U.S. Veterans Health Administration's Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) is the first large-scale deployment of an electronic health record (EHR).

  • 2009

    2009
    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) outlines federal incentives for adopting EHRs.