Implementation of an electronic medical record system in previously computer-naïve primary care centres: A pilot study from Cyprus

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 207-216

  Samoutis, George ^a,d   Soteriades, Elpidoforos S ^b   Kounalakis, Dimitris K ^a   Zachariadou, Theodora ^a   Philalithis, Anastasios ^c   Lionis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Cyprus; Electronic medical record; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYPRUS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CYPRUS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 39149119295     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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