Low-income, ethnically diverse consumers' perspective on health information exchange and personal health records

Informatics for Health and Social Care

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 233-252

  Patel, Vaishali N ^a,b   Dhopeshwarkar, Rina V ^a,b   Edwards, Alison ^a,b   Barron, Yolanda ^a,b   Likourezos, Antonios ^c   Burd, Luba ^c   Olshansky, Dmitry ^c   Kaushal, Rainu ^a,b,d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative HITEC   (United States)

^c MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

consumer attitudes; Health information exchange; health information technology; low income; minority; personal health records

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; POVERTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054932596     PISSN: 17538157     EISSN: 17538165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17538157.2011.554930     Document Type: Review

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