Design and implementation of a web-based patient portal linked to an electronic health record designed to improve medication safety: The Patient Gateway medications module

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-155

  Schnipper, Jeffrey L ^a   Gandhi, Tejal K ^a   Wald, Jonathan S ^b   Grant, Richard W ^a   Poon, Eric G ^a   Volk, Lynn A ^b   Businger, Alexandra ^a   Siteman, Elizabeth ^b   Buckel, Lauren ^b   Middleton, Blackford ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse drugs event; Electronic health record; Patient portals

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT PLANNING; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 51749114662     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v16i2.686     Document Type: Article

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