Serious Technology Assessment for Health Care Information Technology

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 259-265

  Cushman, Reid ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031180806     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040259     Document Type: Review

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