Inside Precision Medicine August 16, 2022
Electronic health records (EHRs) – systems that control all hospital data – have been around since the early 1970s. One of the first, the Health Evaluation thru Logical Processing (HELP) system, was developed by medical informatics pioneer Homer Warner at LDS Hospital, now Intermountain Healthcare, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Warner’s system used medical logic to evaluate patient data and provide clinical decision support (CDS). With time it was refined to include more information, such as clinical laboratory and pharmacy data and cardiology and pulmonary function test results, and it is still in use today.
EHRs were initially developed and used by academic institutions, but in the 1990s, when hardware became more affordable and the internet led to the use...
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