Electronic medical records: A review comparing the challenges in developed and developing countries

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sood, Sanjay P ^a   Nwabueze, Stacie N ^b   Mbarika, Victor W A ^b   Prakash, Nupur ^c   Chatterjee, Samir ^d   Ray, Pradeep ^e   Mishra, Saroj ^f  

^a C DAC School of Advanced Computing   (Mauritius)

^b SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 51449113710     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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