Small, nonteaching, and rural hospitals continue to be slow in adopting electronic health record systems

Health Affairs

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1092-1099

  DesRoches, Catherine M ^a   Worzala, Chantal ^b   Joshi, Maulik S ^b   Kralovec, Peter D ^c   Jha, Ashish K ^d,e  

^a MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c American Hospital Association's Health Forum   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862506861     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0153     Document Type: Article

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