Return on investment in electronic health records in primary care practices: A mixed-methods study

JMIR Medical Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Jang, Yeona ^a   Lortie, Michel A ^b   Sanche, Steven ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost recovery from ehr implementation; Physician satisfaction with ehr; Primary care practices; Return on investment in electronic health records; Roi indicator

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099704179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.3631     Document Type: Article

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