Ob/Gyn EMR Software, a Solution for Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Background

Worldwide use of Information Technology in Health Care began in the early 1950’s with the rapid increase of computers usage. In 1949 Gustav Wager established the first professional organization of informatics in Germany. During the 1960’s various specialized university departments were established in France, Germany, Belgium, Holland developing Informatics educational programs, while Health Informatics research facilities began during the next decade in Poland and the US. Since then the development of high quality research, education and facilities of Health Informatics was the prime goal in the USA and the European Union (Grossman et al., 2009).

In its beginning Health Informatics was not referred to using one specific term and was usually known as medical computing, medical computer science, computer medicine, medical electronic data processing, medical automatic data processing, medical information processing, medical information science, medical software engineering and medical computer technology.