International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 77, Issue 12 , Pages 836-847 , December 2008

The design and development of a physician-oriented PACS for the enhancement of e-hospital facilities

  • Tzu-Yi Yu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Information Management, National Chi Nan University, 470 University Road, Puli 54561, Nantou, Taiwan, ROC
    • Tel.: +886 49 2910960x4637; fax: +886 49 2915205.
    • ,
  • Hsu-Hua Ho

      Affiliations

    • Internal Medicine Department, Puli Christian Hospital, 1 Tie Shan Road, Puli, Nantou, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 49 2912151; fax: +886 49 2917917.

Received 7 May 2007 ,Revised 29 January 2008 ,Accepted 18 May 2008.

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PII: S1386-5056(08)00080-4

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.05.006

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 77, Issue 12 , Pages 836-847 , December 2008

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