MedPro Healthcare Staffing history

Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine; Charles E. Rosenberg, The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987).

In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee established the World Wide Web and while healthcare wasn’t immediately affected, the web and browser technology established an expectation of how to access, share and navigate information.

The study wouldn’t be published until 1991, but it found security issues, lack of standards and cost were the primary barriers to adopting electronic health records at the time.

Hospital revenues derived from outpatient services doubled over the period, reaching 25 percent of all revenues by 1992.[viii]

[iv]. D. Drake, Reforming the Health Care Market: An Interpretive Economic History (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1994).

Some of the larger not-for-profit corporations have bailed out public facilities through lease arrangements, such as the one between the Daughters of Charity’s Seton Medical Center and the public Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, that occurred in 1995.

Congress even got into the act in 1997 when it passed the Newborns’ Mother Health Protection Act, prohibiting so-called “drive-through deliveries” (overly restrictive limits on hospital stays following the birth of a child).[xiii]

[ii]. D. Mitchell, Managed Care and Developmental Disabilities: Reconciling the Realities of Managed Care with the Individual Needs of Persons with Disabilities (Homewood, IL: High Tide Press, 1999).

In his 2004 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush called for computerized health records – the beginning of the electronic health record (EHR) revolution.

Adoption of fully-functional EHRs grew more significantly with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in 2009.

In 2011, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology started working with the 62 Regional Extension Centers (RECs) across the nation to help healthcare providers migrate to electronic healthcare record systems.

Over the following two decades, a number of other states joined Arizona in providing managed LTSS, and by the summer of 2012, 16 states were operating Medicaid managed LTSS programs.[x]

Prior to joining MedPro in 2013, Meaghan worked for one of the largest staffing companies in the world - Randstat Staffing.

Despite widespread adoption of EHR systems since the passage of the HITECH act, by 2014 healthcare systems were not widely sharing healthcare data outside their organization.

As of 2015 96 percent of hospitals and 87 percent of office-based physician practices were using electronic health records (EHRs).

In 2016, it remains a fast-growing field that shows no signs of deceleration.