Adoption of e-health technology by physicians: A scoping review

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare

Volumn 9, Issue , 2016, Pages 335-344

  de Grood, Chloe ^a   Raissi, Aida ^b   Kwon, Yoojin ^c   Santana, Maria Jose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Toronto Public Library   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitude of health personnel; Diffusion of innovation; Electronic medical records; Information seeking behavior; Medical informatics

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMBASE; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDLINE; PRIVACY; PSYCINFO; SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TELEHEALTH;

EID: 84987925052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11782390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/JMDH.S103881     Document Type: Article

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