Geographic variation in ambulatory electronic health record adoption: Implications for underserved communities

Health Services Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6 PART1, 2013, Pages 2037-2059

  King, Jennifer ^a   Furukawa, Michael F ^a   Buntin, Melinda B ^b  

^a Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology   (United States)

^b Macroeconomic Analysis Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Electronic health records; Geographic variation; Underserved populations

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION; STATISTICS; UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

AMBULATORY CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION; UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS;

EID: 84893014344     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12078     Document Type: Article

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