Using electronic health records to save money

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue E1, 2013, Pages

  Bar Dayan, Yosefa ^a,b,c   Saed, Halil ^a   Boaz, Mona ^c   Misch, Yehudith ^a   Shahar, Talia ^a   Husiascky, Ilan ^a   Blumenfeld, Oren ^a  

^a Medical Corps   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COST CONTROL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; ARTICLE; COST-CONTAINMENT; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RETURN ON INVESTMENT;

COST-CONTAINMENT; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; HEALTHCARE; PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN; RETURN ON INVESTMENT;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; COST SAVINGS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881366310     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001504     Document Type: Note

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