The digital divide in adoption and use of a personal health record

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 568-574

  Yamin, Cyrus K ^a,b   Emani, Srinivas ^a,b   Williams, Deborah H ^a   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^a   Karson, Andrew S ^b,c   Wald, Jonathan S ^a,d   Bates, David W ^a,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASTHMA; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEGRO; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCESS TO RECORDS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955130331     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.34     Document Type: Article

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