Quantifying the impact of health IT implementations on clinical workflow: A new methodological perspective

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 454-461

  Zheng, Kai ^a   Haftel, Hilary M ^b   Hirschl, Ronald B ^b   O'Reilly, Michael ^b   Hanauer, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; WORKFLOW; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MICHIGAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKFLOW;

EID: 77958169767     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2010.004440     Document Type: Article

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