The Life and Times of Medical Records
7/14/2010
In the late 1960’s, Dr. Lawrence L. Weed developed the Problem Oriented Medical Record (POMR). His vision was to have electronic medical records with standardized progress charts for all patients.
Fast forward 30 years, and you would be hard pressed to find a medical group or health care system that used Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to exchange patient data with one another. Most medical records were still in the form of physical documents, stored in a file folder and shared between a few key members in the medical facility.
