The impact of EHR and HIE on reducing avoidable admissions: Controlling main differential diagnoses

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ben Assuli, Ofir ^a,c   Shabtai, Itamar ^b   Leshno, Moshe ^c  

^a ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b College of Management Academic Studies ^*  (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electronic health record; Health information exchange; Health maintenance organization; Interoperability; IS efficiency; Medical decision analysis; Medical informatics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; ISRAEL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT READMISSION; PHYSICIANS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876088894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-49     Document Type: Article

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