A qualitative study of health information technology in the Canadian public health system

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zinszer, Kate ^a   Tamblyn, Robyn ^a   Bates, David W ^b   Buckeridge, David L ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Gouvernement du Quebec   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Electronic infrastructure; Health information technology; Informatics; Public health; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

CANADA; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; PUBLIC POLICY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878009471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-509     Document Type: Article

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