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Chunyu Yi keeps the first known medical recordbetween 206 BCE and 8 ADE
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between 1790 and 1821 Some of America's ealiet hospitals began keeping patients records, including New York Hospital, Pennsylvannia Hsopital, and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Physicians treating Civil War soldiers keep standardized records
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The American College of Surgeons (ACS) develops a hospital standardization program.
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Doctor Lawrence L. Weed and Jan Schultz develp a medical record software program called PROMIS or Problem-Oriented Medical Informatin System
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The U.S. Veterans Health Administration's Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) is the first large-scale deployment of an electronic health record (EHR)
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (AARA) outlines federal incentives for adopting EHR's
