A Near Miss: The Importance of Context in a Public Health Informatics Project in a New Zealand Case Study

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 701-704

  Wells, Stewart ^a   Bullen, Chris ^a  

^a Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTENT VALIDITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HIGH RISK POPULATION; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NEW ZEALAND; POLITICS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCREENING TEST; SOCIAL ASPECT;

AMBULATORY CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS;

EID: 49849088976     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2629     Document Type: Article

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