Achieving excellence in Electronic Health Record deployment in Middle East hospitals

Proceedings - 2011 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2011

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 1919-1923

  Altuwaijri, Majid M ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

EHR; Health Information Systems; Project Management; Saudi Hospitals

Indexed keywords

EHR; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEMS; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE EAST; SAUDI ARABIA; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION;

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

HEALTH;

EID: 84855811182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2011.6098652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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