Adoption of electronic medical records in family practice: The providers' perspective

Family Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 508-512

  Terry, Amanda L ^a   Giles, Gavin ^a   Brown, Judith Belle ^a   Thind, Amardeep ^a   Stewart, Moira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 67650819220     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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