Envisioning a Social-Health Information Exchange as a Platform to Support a Patient-Centered Medical Neighborhood: A Feasibility Study

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 60-67

  Nguyen, Oanh Kieu ^a   Chan, Connie V ^b   Makam, Anil ^a   Stieglitz, Heather ^b   Amarasingham, Ruben ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation   (United States)

Author keywords

community based participatory research; health care delivery; health information technology; underserved populations; vulnerable populations

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CONSTANT COMPARATIVE METHOD; COORDINATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEIGHBORHOOD; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION; SAFETY; SOCIAL WORK; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEXAS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84955734940     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-2969-8     Document Type: Article

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