A national patient-centered E-health solution - The experience from down under to-date with the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR)

20th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Muhammad, Imran ^a   Wichramasinghe, Nilmini ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

E health; EHR; Electronic health record; Healthcare; Healthcare delivery; Healthcare management; Healthcare operations; Patient centered E health; PCEH; PCEHR; Personally controlled electronic health records

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

EHEALTH; EHR; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH-CARE MANAGEMENTS; HEALTH-CARE OPERATIONS; HEALTHCARE DELIVERY; PCEH; PCEHR;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84905963397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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