Back to the future of IT adoption and evaluation in healthcare

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-109

  Spil, Ton A M ^a   LeRouge, Cynthia ^b   Trimmer, Ken ^c   Wiggins, Carla ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical HIT; E health adoption; E health evaluation; EHR; Electronic health record; Electronic medical record; EMR; Health information technology; HIT; HIT adoption; HIT evaluation; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHARMACY; REVIEW; TELEHEALTH; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 78649850347     PISSN: 13682156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJHTM.2011.037222     Document Type: Review

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