Integrating commercial ambulatory electronic health records with hospital systems: An evolutionary process

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 683-693

  Sherer, Susan A ^a   Meyerhoefer, Chad D ^a   Sheinberg, Michael ^b   Levick, Donald ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Valley Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Care coordination; Clinical information retrieval; Electronic health records

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTEGRATION; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; STANDARDIZATION;

CARE COORDINATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; INTEGRATED INFORMATIONS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SOFTWARE INTEROPERABILITY; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; TRUST; AMBULATORY CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMBULATORY CARE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRIVATE SECTOR; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84946500395     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.05.010     Document Type: Article

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