Professional and geographical network effects on healthcare information exchange growth: Does proximity really matter?

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 671-678

  Yaraghi, Niam ^a   Du, Anna Ye ^a   Sharman, Raj ^a   Gopal, Ram D ^b   Ramesh, R ^a   Singh, Ranjit ^a,c   Singh, Gurdev ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTHCARE INFORMATION EXCHANGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARKETING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN; RURAL AREA; SOCIETY; URBAN AREA;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; MULTI-SIDED PLATFORM; NETWORK EFFECTS;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE;

EID: 84902372335     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001293     Document Type: Article

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