Towards safe electronic health records: A socio-technical perspective and the need for incident reporting

Health Policy and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-15

  Aarts, Jos ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RISK REDUCTION;

EID: 84861146169     PISSN: 22118837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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