Health care information technology: A cloud around the silver lining?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 924-926

  Liebovitz, David ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED;

EID: 66349086462     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.79     Document Type: Editorial

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