Blue button use by patients to access and share health record information using the department of veterans affairs' online patient portal

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 657-663

  Turvey, Carolyn L ^a,b   Klein, Dawn ^a,b   Fix, Gemmae ^c,d   Hogan, Timothy P ^c,e   Woods, Susan ^f,g   Simon, Steven R ^c,h   Charlton, Mary ^a,i   Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary ^a,b   Zulman, Donna M ^j,k   Dindo, Lilian ^b   Wakefield, Bonnie ^a,l   Graham, Gail ^c   Nazi, Kim ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^j VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^k STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGED; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMPUTER ABILITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT EDUCATION; SELF REPORT;

CARE COORDINATION; HEALTH RECORD, PERSONAL; VETERANS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER LITERACY; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCESS TO RECORDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902317445     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002723     Document Type: Article

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