In 1998, we released CDR-Web, the first commercially available web-based Clinical Data Repository, as our flagship product.  A Clinical Data Repository is a “patient-based” database that is focused on clinical healthcare data, allowing users to view patient records electronically.  In the time where large paper charts were brought up from the Records Room to the patient’s nursing station for the physician and clinical staff to review, CDR-Web made that same information immediately available via laptops and mobile workstations, directly in the patient’s room, using a powerful SQL Database and Web Application. It turns out that both Web Applications and Electronic Paper Charts were relatively new territory for corporate America in 1998.

Over the next 7 years, additional modules were added to CDR-Web, each just as revolutionary as the product itself.  These included web-based document scanning, prescription order entry with real-time interaction checking, and a personal view to a patient’s own record (later becoming known in the industry as a PHR, or Patient Health Record).  On top of that, CDR-Web itself had multi-tier permissions and preferences, allowing the user experience to be customized at the facility, user’s role and down to the individual user.

For over a decade, CDR-Web was installed and operated as the primary medical record for several Michigan Hospitals, including Providence Hospital of Southfield and its partner Providence Park of Novi, Botsford Hospital of Farmington, and Central Michigan Hospital as well as Bay Medical in Florida.

To date, some still refer to CDR-Web as “the most easy-to-use and intuitive” application they have ever used.