An Electronic Health Record Based on Structured Narrative

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-64

  Johnson, Stephen B ^a   Bakken, Suzanne ^a   Dine, Daniel ^a   Hyun, Sookyung ^a   Mendonça, Eneida ^a   Morrison, Frances ^a   Bright, Tiffani ^a   Van Vleck, Tielman ^a   Wrenn, Jesse ^a   Stetson, Peter ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 36749031587     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2131     Document Type: Article

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