Addressing connectivity issues: The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise-Radiation Oncology (IHE-RO) initiative

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 226-231

  Rengan, Ramesh ^a   Curran, Bruce ^b   Able, Charles ^c   Abdel Wahab, May ^d   Ravi, Akkamma ^e   Albuquerque, Kevin ^f   Field, Colin ^g   Abdul, Sidrah ^h   Kapoor, Rishabh ⁱ   Tripuraneni, Prabhakar ^j   Palta, Jatinder ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h American Society for Radiation Oncology   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^j SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTEGRATING THE HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE; MEDICAL ERROR; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SAFETY; TREATMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM; TREATMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM;

EID: 80053578930     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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