Archiving the Phenome: Clinical Records Deserve Long-term Preservation

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Corn, Milton ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENOME; GENOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION CENTER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHENOMENOLOGY; POLICY; SOCIAL PROBLEM; UNITED STATES;

ARCHIVES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57149126076     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2925     Document Type: Article

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