A Ride in the Time Machine: Information Management Capabilities Health Departments Will Need.
We have proposed needed information management capabilities for future US health departments predicated on trends in health care reform and health information technology. Regardless of whether health departments provide direct clinical services (and many will), they will manage unprecedented quantit...
| Published in: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 104; no. 9; pp. 1592 - 1601 |
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American Public Health Association
Sep2014
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