Regenstrief Institute
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The Regenstrief Institute, Inc. is a private, non-profit research organization affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine
(IUSM) and based in Indianapolis
. It was founded in 1969 by Sam Regenstrief. The institute is heavily involved in the field of medical informatics.
and affiliated organizations at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
(EMR). This system serves as the production electronic medical records system at Wishard Hospital and its community clinics and other institutions.
, an open source effort to build a framework for electronic medical records development in resource poor areas. Much of the foundational design for the OpenMRS project was gleaned from Regenstrief's decades of experience with electronic medical record systems. OpenMRS was selected as Google Summer of Code
2007 project.
Indiana University School of Medicine
The Indiana University School of Medicine is a leading medical school and medical research powerhouse connected to Indiana University. With several teaching campuses in the state, the School of Medicine has its predominant research and medical center at the Indiana University – Purdue University...
(IUSM) and based in Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
. It was founded in 1969 by Sam Regenstrief. The institute is heavily involved in the field of medical informatics.
Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D)
The Regenstrief's efforts in Health Services Research and Development efforts are diverse and published. Many of these efforts are in close collaboration with the medical informaticiansHealth informatics
.Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care...
and affiliated organizations at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Regenstrief Medical Record System
Since the 1970s, this group has been developing the Regenstrief Medical Records System, one of the earliest electronic medical record systemsElectronic medical record
An electronic medical record is a computerized medical record created in an organization that delivers care, such as a hospital or physician's office...
(EMR). This system serves as the production electronic medical records system at Wishard Hospital and its community clinics and other institutions.
Open Source Medical Records System
Regenstrief, in collaboration with Partners In Health (Boston) and MRC (South Africa), helped to found the OpenMRSOpenMRS
is a collaborative open source project to develop excellent software to support the delivery of health care in developing countries. It grew out of the critical need to scale up the treatment of HIV in Africa but from the start was conceived as a general purpose electronic medical record system...
, an open source effort to build a framework for electronic medical records development in resource poor areas. Much of the foundational design for the OpenMRS project was gleaned from Regenstrief's decades of experience with electronic medical record systems. OpenMRS was selected as Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code
The Google Summer of Code is an annual program, first held from May to August 2005, in which Google awards stipends to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free or open-source software coding project during the summer...
2007 project.
See also
- Medical informatics
- Clinical medicineClinical MedicineClinical Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal published bimonthly by the Royal College of Physicians. It was established in 1966 as the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was doubly named between 1998 and 2000, and since 2001 it has appeared as Clinical Medicine. Its...
- electronic medical record systemsElectronic medical recordAn electronic medical record is a computerized medical record created in an organization that delivers care, such as a hospital or physician's office...
(EMR) - Regional Health Information OrganizationRegional Health Information OrganizationA Regional Health Information Organization is a multistakeholder organization expected to be responsible for motivating and causing integration and information exchange among stakeholders that region's revamped healthcare system...
(RHIO) - Health information exchange (HIE)
- HL7
- Arden syntaxArden SyntaxThe Arden syntax is an artificial intelligence frame-based grammar for representing and processing medical conditions and recommendations as "Medical Logic Modules ", used in Medical algorithms....
- National Resource Center for Health Information TechnologyNational Resource Center for Health Information TechnologyIn 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the United States Department of Health and Human Services created the to support over 125 federal grants and contracts that are demonstrating the value and implementation of information technology in health care .With leadership from the...
- LOINCLOINCLogical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes is a database and universal standard for identifying medical laboratory observations. It was developed and is maintained by the Regenstrief Institute, a US non-profit medical research organization, in 1994...