From troubleshooting to EMR optimization: IT support in a general practice setting

Electronic Journal of Health Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Tolar, Marianne ^a   Balka, Ellen ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action research; Community health centers; Computerized medical records systems; Infrastructure; IT support; Workplace ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860600129     PISSN: 14464381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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