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February 11, 2009This article follows three physicians who decided to start their own EHR companies: Andrew Ury, MD Chief Medical Officer, Practice Partner; Randall Oates, MD Founder, SOAPware; and Jonathan Bertman, MD, FAACP President, Amazing Charts. Each wanted to create software to fit their own needs, but soon realized that other physicians were struggling with the same challenges and would benefit from this new technology.
“When we first started out, the first reaction from most physicians was not “I like this, I don‘t like that, let‘s adjust the system,” says Andrew Ury, MD, the Chief Medical Officer for Practice Partner. ―The first reaction from most physicians was “you can‘t create an electronic health record system; it‘s not possible.” For Ury, whose interest in computers and computing dates back to high school, the transition to electronic management of patient records was comfortable and natural. For many of his colleagues in the comparatively technophobic early 1980s, the change was nothing short of a complete cultural transformation, a fact that made Ury‘s ambition—the development of the first-ever commercial EHR—a considerable challenge.”
Read the full article: “The EHR Trailblazers“
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