Our Mission: To facilitate patient care by simplifying the capture, aggregation, transmittal, processing and review of medical information.

We address directly the causes of physician resistance to adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs). We do this by producing software that makes capture of the encounter information fast enough, sufficiently comprehensive and rewarding to overcome physician reluctance to use them. With Intelligent Prompting™ and Alerts to support entry, problem-oriented flow sheets to simplify review of the record, and automated Evaluation and Management (E&M) calculation to stop under-coding of the visit, systems using Medcin have gained physician acceptance. We continue to look for new ways to make the EMR easier and more rewarding for physicians and their staff to use. We understand the time pressures physicians are working under and are constantly looking for ways to support increased efficiency.

Our History

Medicomp was founded in 1978 by Peter S. Goltra to develop an intelligent clinical database for documentation at the time of care.

The first few years were spent in designing the structure for a knowledge engine that could be populated with relationships between clinical events. Refinement of the data model and field testing occupied most of the period from 1978-1983. The clinical database engine, now named MEDCIN® *, has been continuously expanded and refined since 1978, in collaboration with physicians on staff at the Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and other major medical centers.

Requests from practicing doctors for an electronic medical record (EMR) system prompted the development and release of a Unix-based system in 1986. The use of this MEDCIN-enabled EMR in more than fifty sites during the period 1986-1996 provided substantial input from community-based physicians and led to continual improvements in MEDCIN.

In 1996 the decision was made to offer MEDCIN in a series of data files for use by clinical application developers. The basic nomenclature of MEDCIN’s individual data elements was released pro bono and published in hardcover by Springer-Verlag in February, 1997.

The subsequent availability of all MEDCIN data files on computer media, including the intelligent database engine and the software development kit (SDK), led many application developers to license MEDCIN for use in their EMR systems.

* MEDCIN is a registered trademark of Medicomp Systems, Inc.