Primary Care Physician's Attitude Towards the GERMAN e-Health Card Project--Determinants and Implications

  • Authors:
  • Nicole Ernstmann;Oliver Ommen;Melanie Neumann;Antje Hammer;Raymond Voltz;Holger Pfaff

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Health Services Research Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany;Center for Health Services Research Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany;Center for Health Services Research Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany;Center for Health Services Research Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany;Department of Palliative Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany;Center for Health Services Research Cologne/ Division of Medical Sociology of the Institute and Policnic for Occupational and Social Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Medical Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Handling of patient records is increasing overhead costs for most of the hospitals in this digital age. In most hospitals and health care centers, the patient text information and corresponding medical images are stored separately as different files. ...