Measuring interoperable EHR adoption and maturity: A Canadian example

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Gheorghiu, Bobby ^a   Hagens, Simon ^a  

^a Canada Health Infoway Inforoute Santé du Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change management; Electronic health record; Health information exchange; Health information technology; Maturity of use; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

CANADA; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HUMAN; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

CANADA; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS;

EID: 84955270803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-016-0247-x     Document Type: Article

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