The Role of Policy in the Prevention of Personal Health Record (PHR) Market Failure

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-132

  Baird, Aaron ^a   Raghu, T S ^a   Tulledge Scheitel, Sidna M ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced social contract; interoperability; personal health record; PHR; policy; privacy; value appropriation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859703834     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2011.565460     Document Type: Article

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