Policy: Achieving a nationwide learning health system

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 57, 2010, Pages

  Friedman, Charles P ^a   Wong, Adam K ^a   Blumenthal, David ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER SECURITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG RESEARCH; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARDIZATION; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; LEARNING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; UNITED STATES;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; LEARNING; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PUBLIC POLICY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78349263409     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3001456     Document Type: Note

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