Managing interoperability and complexity in health systems

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-4

  Bouamrane, Matt Mouley ^a   Tao, C ^b   Sarkar, I N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological ontologies; Classification; Health information management; Information storage and retrieval; Knowledge bases; Medical informatics; Systematized nomenclature of medicine; Systems integration

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84921283927     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME15-10-0001     Document Type: Editorial

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