Much of the conversation around healthcare technology is centered on where new developments are taking us. But as the age old adage goes, you can’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been.
And when it comes to health IT, few innovations have been more significant or played more of a central role in innovation, than the digitization of medical information in the form of the electronic medical record (EMR) and later, the electronic health record (EHR). To better illustrate the history behind this technology, we’ve created the following timeline to provide you with some context behind the evolution of this technology.
