Faulkner wrote the code, using the computer language MUMPS. The founder of Meditech, an electronic health record company, had developed it in 1968 at MassGeneralHospital.
Dr. James Perrin, the director of the division of general pediatrics at the MassGeneralHospital for Children in Boston, says it takes more than one doctor's visit to get an ADHD diagnosis right. (Perrin helped write guidelines for diagnosing ADHD in general practice or family practice settings, which were published in 2000, but did not participate in Garland's study).