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The EHR Science Blog presents the musings of Jerome H. Carter, MD, CEO of Informatics Squared, Inc.
Dr. Carter is the editor of Electronic Health Records, Second Edition, published by the American College of Physicians.
Posts on this blog are the personal views of Dr. Carter and do not reflect the official policies or positions of the American College of Physicians.
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- Of Blogs, Books, Communities, and the Natural History of Ideas
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- Human Factors and the Human Condition
- What is the Smallest Viable Unit of Clinical Data?
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- EHR Design: Default Values as a Cause of Errors
- Yes, Programming Is Math…
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- You Had Me at “Swift”
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- Summer Reading List
- Clinical Care Systems for Small Practices: A Market Opportunity
- Looking Forward to Summer
- Greatest Hits: Volume 5
- Is the Electronic Health Record Defunct?– Part II: An Architecture for Clinical Care Systems
- Developing Clinical Care Systems from the Outside-In
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- Using EHR-related Research to Guide EHR Design
- An Informaticist Looks at Math Proofs, Part III: Three Common Proof Techniques
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