Improving primary care for patients with complex chronic diseases: can health information technology play a role?

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Published in CMAJ on July 07, 2009

Authors

Richard W Grant1, Blackford Middleton

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. rgrant@partners.org

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