When does adoption of health information technology by physician practices lead to use by physicians within the practice?

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue E1, 2013, Pages

  McClellan, Sean R ^a   Casalino, Lawrence P ^b   Shortell, Stephen M ^a   Rittenhouse, Diane R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; MEANINGFUL USE CRITERIA; PHYSICIAN PRACTICES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; MEANINGFUL USE; PHYSICIAN PRACTICES;

HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UNITED STATES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881354943     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001271     Document Type: Article

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