Why primary care practices should become digital health information hubs for their patients

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Baird, Aaron ^a   Nowak, Samantha ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dunwoody Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Health information hubs; Patient facing technologies; Primary care

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FAMILY PRACTICE; HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84964314135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-014-0190-9     Document Type: Review

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