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Emrld is on a mission to revolutionize medical education by providing a platform for collaborative, case-based learning that prepares students for real-world challenges. We believe that active learning through real-life scenarios is the most effective way to master medicine.

Over the past five years, we have dedicated ourselves to building a platform that bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application for medical students and professionals

• December 2018: Scope officially launches as a skunk works within David Loney’s previous clinical company, with the expressed purpose of developing a superior EMR system for one small segment of healthcare. David had begun developing the algorithms many years beforehand, and it was time to build the tools.

• 2019: Rick Powell came onboard as Chief Medical Officer, urging us to broaden our scope to include all of medicine as our solutions were needed more in other areas of medicine than the narrow specialty we began our focus on. Physicians from around the world began building workflows into Scope. 

• 2020: While testing our EMR with Staff physicians at Dartmouth-Hithcock Medical Center, the physicians were pointing out to us that our software was an excellent guide to the medical students who were shadowing them.

• 2021: Even though we were able to reduce clinical note time from an average of 20 minutes per outpatient visit, to less than 2 minutes, it became clear that large medical practices and medical centers who had paid millions of dollars for their EMRs were not going to be swayed to a tool so different, nor could a small company walk in and expect to be listened to.

• 2022: The message delivered to us by the staff physicians we tested the software on led us to exclusively focus on solving learning problems for students of medicine: MD, DO, PA-S, and NP. A living encyclopedia was added to the EMR, which allowed the student to fill knowledge gaps as they shadowed or worked with their own patients. Thus, the student edition of Scope was born. It had also become clear to us that case studies should be built right into the student EMR so a student could simulate patient care right in Scope.

• 2023: EMRLD was up to more than 20 physicians building knowledge content, workflows, and case studies into Scope.

• 2024: Scope is released in the early summer as a platform where clinicians, professors, and students can author and publish gamified case studies. A new interface is added that resembles familiar UX from video and music platforms, where authors and students have their own channel upon which they can publish their own content, and post favorite case studies by other authors. By the middle of summer, more than 400 case studies were up on the platform.

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