An empirically-derived approach for investigating Health Information Technology: The Elementally Entangled Organisational Communication (EEOC) framework

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Georgiou, Andrew ^a   Westbrook, Johanna I ^a   Braithwaite, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 84863698174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-68     Document Type: Article

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