Collaborative search in electronic health records
Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationPublished 12 April 2011Open access
Kai Zheng, Qiaozhu Mei, David A. Hanauer
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Applying collaborative search, a social information-foraging technique popularly used on the web, may provide the potential to improve the quality and efficiency of information retrieval in healthcare.
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Applying collaborative search, a social information-foraging technique popularly used on the web, may provide the potential to improve the quality and efficiency of information retrieval in healthcare.
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