Health information technology: Fallacies and sober realities

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 617-623

  Karsh, Ben Tzion ^a   Weinger, Matthew B ^b,c   Abbott, Patricia A ^d,e   Wears, Robert L ^f,g  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEVICE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENGINEERING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LAW; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; RISK; STANDARDIZATION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650425328     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2010.005637     Document Type: Article

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