Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 48, Issue 4 , Pages 426-432 , October 2006

Approaches to Patient Health Information Exchange and Their Impact on Emergency Medicine

  • Jason S. Shapiro, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Jason Shapiro, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1149, New York, NY 10029; 917-334-6233, fax 212-663-1489
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  • Joseph Kannry, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Informatics, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Mark Lipton, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • Department of Information Technology, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
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  • Eric Goldberg, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • Department of Information Technology, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Paul Conocenti, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Information Technology, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Susan Stuard, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal, Regulatory and Professional Affairs, Greater New York Hospital Association
    • ,
  • Brian M. Wyatt, JD

      Affiliations

    • Office of Legal Affairs, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY
    • Department of Quality Assurance, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

Received 10 January 2006 ,Revised 15 March 2006 ,Accepted 30 March 2006.

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 Supervising editor: Brent R. Asplin, MD, MPHFunding and support: Jason S. Shapiro was supported by NLM grant T15 NLM 00709-13.Reprints not available from the authors.Available online June 6, 2006.

PII: S0196-0644(06)00488-4

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.03.032

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 48, Issue 4 , Pages 426-432 , October 2006

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