Building a National Health IT System from the Middle Out
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Open Access
- 1 May 2009
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Vol. 16 (3) , 271-273
Abstract
The top-down approach of many national programs for healthcare information technology (IT) may be at the heart of their current problems.Keywords
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