The following links offer more information on organizations that are working to develop and implement electronic medical records (EMRs).

Industry Groups

AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association

HIMSS - Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

Medical Records Institute - Sponsors of TEPR (Towards an Electronic Patient Record)

MGMA - Medical Group Management Association

CHIMSS - Colorado Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

NAHC - National Association of Healthcare Consultants, a group primarily focused on implementing EMR products

Chart Update

Clinical Reference Systems - Supplier of Logician patient education handouts

ADP Context - ICD and CPT coding schema vendor

First DataBank - MediSpan drug databases supplier

MediMedia - Pharmacy formulary vendor

Coding Standards

ICD9 - International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision

CPT-4 - Procedure codes developed by the AMA for professional billing

SNOMED - Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine

LOINC - A set of universal names and ID codes for laboratory and clinical observations

Arden Syntax - A language for encoding medical knowledge

UMLS - The National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System

Other

Cheyenne - Backup software

Crystal Reports - Crystal Reports (Seagate Software) database query and report format software

Regulatory Agencies

NCVHS - National Committee on Vital Health Statistics, the Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set. Standards for data collection.

Health Level 7 - Standards for the electronic interchange of clinical, financial, and administrative information among independent healthcare oriented computer systems, such as hospital information, clinical laboratory, enterprise, and pharmacy systems.

HCFA - Health Care Financing Administration. The federal agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Responsible for the 1997 Evaluation and Management Guidelines for documenting medical and surgical services.