Toward a DoD/VA longitudinal health record: Politics and the policy landscape

Military Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 4-11

  Gimbel, Ronald W ^a   Clyburn, Conrad A ^b  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL RECORD; MILITARY MEDICINE; POLICY; POLITICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH POLICY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; POLITICS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 73349086260     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/milmed-d-03-9308     Document Type: Article

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