Increasing EHR system usability through standards: Conformance criteria in the HL7 EHR-system functional model

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 63, Issue , 2016, Pages 169-173

  Meehan, Rebecca A ^a   Mon, Donald T ^b   Kelly, Kandace M ^c   Rocca, Mitra ^d   Dickinson, Gary ^e   Ritter, John ^f   Johnson, Constance M ^g  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^e CentriHealth   (United States)

^f Your Data Steward   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Health information technology; Standards; Usability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NOTE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STANDARDIZATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HEALTH LEVEL 7;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH LEVEL SEVEN; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

EID: 84983548619     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.08.015     Document Type: Note

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