The number of health information exchange efforts is declining, leaving the viability of broad clinical data exchange uncertain

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1278-1285

  Adler Milstein, Julia ^a   Lin, Sunny C ^a   Jha, Ashish K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDING; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; VISION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MEANINGFUL USE CRITERIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MEANINGFUL USE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84980367650     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1439     Document Type: Article

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