The national healthcare crisis: Is eHealth a key solution?

Business Horizons

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 265-277

  Hill, John W ^a   Powell, Phillip ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

eHealth; Healthcare crisis; National health information network

Indexed keywords

EID: 63449120393     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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