Impact of the HITECH act on physicians' adoption of electronic health records

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 375-379

  Mennemeyer, Stephen T ^a   Menachemi, Nir ^b   Rahurkar, Saurabh ^a   Ford, Eric W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

American recovery and reinvestment act; Bass model; Electronic health records; Health information technology; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; LEADERSHIP; MEANINGFUL USE CRITERIA; PHYSICIAN; PRODUCTIVITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; MEANINGFUL USE; PHYSICIANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84963783001     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv103     Document Type: Article

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