Enhancing patient safety and quality of care by improving the usability of electronic health record systems: Recommendations from AMIA

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue E1, 2013, Pages

  Middleton, Blackford ^a   Bloomrosen, Meryl ^b   Dente, Mark A ^c   Hashmat, Bill ^d   Koppel, Ross ^e   Overhage, J Marc ^f   Payne, Thomas H ^g   Rosenbloom, S Trent ^h   Weaver, Charlotte ⁱ   Zhang, Jiajie ^j  

^a PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b AMIA   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d CureMD   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT SAFETY; CLINICAL INFORMATICS; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN FACTORS; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL SOCIETY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; USABILITY;

CLINICAL INFORMATICS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN FACTORS; MEDICAL ERROR; USABILITY;

COMMERCE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATIENT SAFETY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881354155     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001458     Document Type: Article

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