Implications of an emerging EHR monoculture for hospitals and healthcare systems

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 465-471

  Koppel, Ross ^a   Lehmann, Christoph U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Data standards; Epic; Implementation; Innovation; Markets

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MARKET; MONOCULTURE; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; WORKFLOW; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

COMMERCE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH FACILITIES; HOSPITALS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84934285475     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-003023     Document Type: Article

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