Towards sustainability of health information systems: How can we define, measure and achieve it?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 129, Issue , 2007, Pages 1179-1183

  Garde, Sebastian ^a,b   Hullin, Carola M ^a,b   Chen, Rong ^c   Schuler, Thilo ^d   Gränz, Jana ^a,e   Knaup, Petra ^f   Hovenga, Evelyn J S ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e University of Applied Sciences Ulm   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

computerized medical record systems; electronic health records; health information systems; openEHR; sustainability

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; HEALTH; INFORMATION USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT; CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE; COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL RECORDS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPENEHR; SUSTAINABLE HEALTHS; TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED;

EID: 35748979161     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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