The Regenstrief Medical Record System, a dynamic electronic medical record system, has helped physicians manage health care information for over a quarter century and provides unique research opportunities to fellows.

The Regenstrief Institute is a non-profit medical research organization. It is closely affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine, Wishard Memorial Hospital and Clarian Health (Methodist, IU and Riley Hospitals). Almost all Regenstrief Institute MD and PhD researchers are also faculty members of the Indiana University School of Medicine.

The Institute is named for Samuel N. Regenstrief, an industrial production expert who invented the low cost front-loading dishwasher. At the peak of his career, his company manufactured forty percent of the dishwashers sold in the United States. In 1968 he founded the Regenstrief Institute because he thought health care was inefficient and could benefit from industrial efficiency techniques and computer automation.

Regenstrief Institute medical informatics research scientists, led by Director J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, Indiana University Professor of Medicine and Regenstrief Professor of Medical Informatics, comprise one of the largest medical informatics physician brain trusts in the United States. They conduct research to improve health care by improving the capture, analysis, content and delivery of the information needed by patients, their health care providers and policy makers. Institute research scientists also carry out intervention studies designed to measure the effect of the application of this research on the efficiency and quality of health care.

The Regenstrief Institute is an international leader in medical informatics standards and strongly committed to open source development.

The Institute of Medicine has identified information technology, including medical informatics, as a priority area of study to improve the quality of the U.S. health care system. The Regenstrief Institute, developer of the Regenstrief Medical Record System (RMRS), is uniquely positioned to carry out this mission.

RMRS, an innovative electronic medical record system, has helped physicians manage health care information for over a quarter century. RMRS has served as a dynamic model for medical records systems around the country and is an intrinsic part of the medical care at the IU teaching hospitals where orders are written by physicians through the Regenstrief Gopher order entry system and results are retrieved from the RMRS. This unique operational role provides opportunities to fellows that are available at few fellowship programs.