The Development of a Highly Constrained Health Level 7 Implementation Guide to Facilitate Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Ambulatory Electronic Health Record Systems

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 285-290

  Sujansky, Walter V ^a   Overhage, J Marc ^b   Chang, Sophia ^c   Frohlich, Jonah ^c   Faus, Samuel A ^a  

^a Sujansky and Associates LLC   (United States)

^b REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c California HealthCare Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL INFORMATION;

AMBULATORY CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 65349090915     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2610     Document Type: Article

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