Assessing differences between physicians' realized and anticipated gains from electronic health record adoption

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-161

  Peterson, Lori T ^a   Ford, Eric W ^b   Eberhardt, John ^c   Huerta, Timothy R ^d   Menachemi, Nir ^e  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^c DecisionQ Corporation   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

EHRs; Technology adoption; Value creation

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHYSICIAN; RETURN ON INVESTMENT; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TEXAS;

EID: 79955699940     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-009-9352-z     Document Type: Article

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