The challenges in making electronic health records accessible to patients

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 116-120

  Beard, Leslie ^a   Schein, Rebecca ^b   Morra, Dante ^a,c,d   Wilson, Kumanan ^e   Keelan, Jennifer ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SECURITY; COST; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LIABILITY; PATIENT; PATIENT RIGHT; PHYSICIAN;

CIVIL RIGHTS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; PATIENT ACCESS TO RECORDS;

EID: 84856772717     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000261     Document Type: Article

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