Systems Medicine—Complexity Within, Simplicity Without

Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 119-137

  Berlin, Richard ^a   Gruen, Russell ^b   Best, James ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c LEE KONG CHIAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Complexity; Simplicity; Systems medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85067951855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2509498X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s41666-017-0002-9     Document Type: Note

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