Effects of health information exchange adoption on ambulatory testing rates

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1137-1142

  Ross, Stephen E ^a   Radcliff, Tiffany A ^b,c   LeBlanc, William G ^c   Dickinson, L Miriam ^c   Libby, Anne M ^a   Nease Jr , Donald E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY ELECTRONIC HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLORADO; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886287249     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001608     Document Type: Article

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