Deploying Patient-Facing Application Programming Interfaces: Thematic Analysis of Health System Experiences

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2020, Pages

  Neinstein, Aaron ^a,b   Thao, Crishyashi ^b   Savage, Mark ^b   Adler Milstein, Julia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application programming interface; Consumer health information; Electronic health record; Health information exchange; Health policy; Patient engagement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATICS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STANDARD; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH SYSTEMS PLANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES;

EID: 85083042105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/16813     Document Type: Article

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