Challenges to using an electronic personal health record by a low-income elderly population

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Kim, Eung Hun ^a   Stolyar, Anna ^b   Lober, William B ^b   Herbaugh, Anne L ^b   Shinstrom, Sally E ^b   Zierler, Brenda K ^b   Soh, Cheong B ^c   Kim, Yongmin ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Elderly populations; Internet; Low income populations; Personal health record (PHR); Personally controlled health record (PCHR); Web based

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POVERTY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION, NURSING, GRADUATE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POVERTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73349135645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1256     Document Type: Article

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