Across the Atlantic cooperation to address international challenges in eHealth and health IT: Managing toward a common goal

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 778-784

  Friedman, Charles P ^a   Iakovidis, Ilias ^b   Debenedetti, Laurent ^c   Lorenzi, Nancy M ^d  

^a European Commission ^*  (United States)

^b EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^c GIP DMP   (France)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Information systems; International cooperation

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CROSS-BORDER; EHEALTH; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HEALTH DATA; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; KEY ELEMENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE STRATEGIES; PARIS , FRANCE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PLENARY SESSIONS; PRIVACY AND SECURITY; PUBLIC-PRIVATE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

HEALTH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SECURITY OF DATA;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EUROPE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 70349614867     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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