Connecting the dots: Health information technology expansion and health disparities

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Lyles, Courtney ^a   Schillinger, Dean ^a   Sarkar, Urmimala ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; REIMBURSEMENT; WEBCAST; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEANINGFUL USE CRITERIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MEANINGFUL USE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

EID: 84938702149     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001852     Document Type: Article

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