eNATAL - Electronic Prenatal Records

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Kansas City Business Journal

"Prenatal Care: Punch Cards, Paper, People, and Promise"
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An Analysis of the Status Quo and the Future of Prenatal Records

Donald W. Miller, Jr., M.D., the Founder and Chief Architect for eNATAL, LLC, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Miller received his medical degree from the the University of Kansas, and completed his residency in OB-GYN at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

After fourteen years of both solo and multi-specialty group practice, Dr. Miller left practice to participate in a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Informatics at the Yale University School of Medicine. At Yale, his research included the design of clinical workstations, information visualization, clinical decision support, clinical practice guidelines–their development and implementation, handheld computing, expert systems, the use of the Internet in medicine and education, and the architecture of electronic medical records. He particularly focused on the art and science to create computer interfaces that are easy-to-use, and to also present clinical information intuitively and in the context of clinical care decisions.

After his Medical Informatics fellowship, Dr. Miller joined Cerner Corporation, Inc., a leading Health Information Technology company. In his role as Physician Executive, Dr. Miller was actively involved in the marketing, design, development, and implementation of an industrial strength healthcare information system, with concentration on ambulatory systems. He was also widely recognized by his peers as an expert in the ambulatory medicine domain, software usability principles, and user-interface design.

Dr. Miller left Cerner in October 1999 to exclusively pursue and develop an innovative approach to delivering prenatal care services via the Internet - eNATAL.