Health information technology adoption in U.S. acute care hospitals

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Ning Jackie ^a   Seblega, Binyam ^b   Wan, Thomas ^a   Unruh, Lynn ^a   Agiro, Abiy ^c   Miao, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UnitedHealth Group   (United States)

^c HEALTHCORE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic disease hospitals; Clinical decision support systems; Health information technology; Healthcare systems; Innovation adoption; Strategic information systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; UNITED STATES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MASS COMMUNICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872481338     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-012-9907-2     Document Type: Article

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