The value of connected health information: Perceptions of electronic health record users in Canada

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Tharmalingam, Sukirtha ^a   Hagens, Simon ^a   Zelmer, Jennifer ^a  

^a Canada Health Infoway Inforoute Santé du Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benefits; Electronic health records; Evaluation; Health information exchange; Interoperability

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELPHI STUDY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LIKERT SCALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERCEPTION; SATISFACTION; SCIENTIST; ADULT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CANADA; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84987624940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-016-0330-3     Document Type: Article

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