Electronic health records approaches and challenges: A comparison between Malaysia and four East Asian countries

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 78-104

  Ghani, Mohd Khanapi Abd ^a   Bali, Rajeev K ^a   Naguib, Raouf N G ^a   Marshall, Ian M ^a   Wickramasinghe, Nilmini S ^b  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Challenges; EHR; Electronic health record; Health ICT; Health information system; HIS; Malaysian health system; Seamless

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPANESE; MALAYSIA; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SERVICE; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 45849096409     PISSN: 17418453     EISSN: 17418461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2008.018922     Document Type: Article

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