Time to rethink health care and ICT?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 69-74

  Avison, David ^a   Young, Terry ^b  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION THEORY; ROBUST CONTROL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

FINANCIAL COMMITMENT; GOVERNMENT AGENCY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS); ORGANIZATIONAL UNCERTAINTIES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34249896930     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1247001.1247008     Document Type: Article

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