by Ileana Balcu | Jun 19, 2017
Lawrence “Larry” Weed (born December 1923, died June 3, 2017) was an American physician, researcher, educator, entrepreneur, and author, who is best known for creating the problem-oriented medical record as well as one of the first electronic health records....
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 10, 2014
Students of medicine (surely most MDs) will know the name Larry Weed, but I didn’t until a few years ago on this blog, when I learned that in 1999 our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson gave Weed an Outstanding Achievement Award. In the late 1960s Dr. Weed...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 9, 2017
The much-quoted line “Patients are the most under-used resource in healthcare” was first uttered in the 1970s by Warner Slack, MD, when he was a young doctor in Madison, Wisconsin. It’s seen many versions and incarnations since then, but it all...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 12, 2011
Katie Matlack at SoftwareAdvice.com has posted an interactive timeline of EHR history. Interesting to see how things unfolded long ago. Note, too, two long-ago pivotal moments: The late 1960s introduction of Larry Weed, MD’s Problem-Oriented Medical Record,...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 28, 2011
The excellent ICMCC daily newsletter just alerted me to this item from Permanente Journal: Interview with Lawrence Weed, MD — The Father of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record Looks Ahead. I hope to absorb it in the next day or two, and I invite people who know...
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