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ENIAC
Development of industrialized computer system that runs at electronic speeds while not lagging due to mechanical parts; created by Army physicist John Mauchly for military purposes while conducting research at the University of Pennsylvania -
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ENIAC's Effect
Enormous amounts of computations conducted by revolutionary system, perhaps as many as humankind will ever accomplish; rendered inert by 1955 lightning strike -
Medicare and Medicaid
Founding of government healthcare projects introduce electronic health records to the medical industry; first used by 73 hospitals nationwide. -
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Seventies' Storm
Lockheed creates physician ordering system Eclipsys, 1971; University of Utah, 3M, and the Latter-day Saints Hospital establish a clinical decision support system; Mass. Gen. and Harvard create the Computer Stored Ambulatory Record COSTAR; Regenstrief Institution of Indianapolis creates namesake Medical Record System, 1972 -
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Eighties' EHR Evolution
1982; Dragon Systems invents first voice recognition prototype for medical dictation; late 1980's, personal computers and Windows-based software manifest in clinics and hospitals for billing and scheduling purposes; graphic user interfaces and networking technologies yield the first data interchange protocol, HL7; DRG's deal a funding blow to EHR popularization -
ARRA and HITECH Acts
Legal steps taken to issue economic stimulus also bring health information technology back into the spotlight; incentivizes EHR usage, bolsters privacy and security of PHI, and fortifies existence of such EHR's for the purpose of meaningful use