Health information technology as a tool, not an end

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1474-1475

  Chang, Sophia W ^a  

^a California HealthCare Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICARE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMBULATORY CARE; DRUG TOXICITY; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING;

EID: 70349252252     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.264     Document Type: Note

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