A usability study of patient-friendly terminology in an EMR system

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 136-140

  Hong, Yi ^a   Ehlers, Kevin ^a   Gillis, Rick ^a   Patrick, Timothy ^b   Zhang, Jin ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Medical records; Patient access to records; Terminology; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; INTERNET; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PORTALS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT ACCESS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 78649513353     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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