... approaches exist – this one synthesizes existing approaches incorporating many types of “data”. This paper addresses four key purposes: J.T. Ziegenfuss can be contacted at: jtz1@psu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Systems theory Health services Organizational change...

... of a country's healthcare provision network [namely: primary, secondary, and tertiary entities] that facilitates a nation‐wide streamlining of patient‐centred health data regardless of the inherently different processes and infrastructure that the data was created by. Electronic media Health services...

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... on physicians' perceptions of EMR technology. David B. Meinert can be contacted at: DavidMeiner@MissouriState.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Health services Communication technologies Records management Doctors Perception United States of America For over a decade analysts...

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