Electronic health record systems: risks and benefits
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Electronic health record systems: risks and benefits.
This special issue of JAMIA presents several applications of electronic health record (EHR) systems for clinical decision making. The integration of genetic information into EHRs has been receiving a lot of attention in the past few years. Wilcox et al (see page e117) describe the implementation of a user interface in an EHR that resulted in timely dissemination of gene variant information to c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1067-5027,1527-974X
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002635