Healthcare information technology's relativity problems: A typology of how patients' physical reality, clinicians' mental models, and healthcare information technology differ

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 117-131

  Smith, Sean W ^a   Koppel, Ross ^a,b  

^a Dartmouth Department of Computer Science_Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION RECORD; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LABORATORY TEST; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; PHARMACY; PHARMACY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; MODELING INTERACTIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TYPOLOGY DEVELOPMENT;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT CARE; PATIENTS;

EID: 84890454161     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001419     Document Type: Article

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