Evaluating integration approaches adopted by healthcare organizations

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 20-27

  Khoumbati, Khalil ^a   Themistocleous, Marinos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SINDH   (Pakistan)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Healthcare organizations; Integration approaches

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; HEALTH-CARE MANAGEMENTS; HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION APPROACH; LEVEL OF INTEGRATIONS; MULTIPLE INTEGRATIONS; PROCESS INTEGRATION;

HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33947357020     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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