Efficient use of medical IS: Diagnosing chest pain

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 413-423

  Ben Assuli, Ofir ^a   Leshno, Moshe ^a  

^a ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decision making; Electronic medical record; Information systems; Medical decision making; Medical diagnosis; Medical informatics; Medical simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863615577     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410391211245865     Document Type: Article

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