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Baby CareLink: Collaborative Tools to Support Families

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Consumer Health Informatics

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. American Medical Informatics Association, USA

    Charles Safran MD (President, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Chairman and CEO)

  2. Harvard Medical School, USA

    Charles Safran MD (President, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Chairman and CEO)

  3. Clinician Support Technology, USA

    Charles Safran MD (President, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Chairman and CEO)

  4. Nursing Informatics, Patient Care Services/Information Systems, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Denise Goldsmith RN, MS, MPH (Program Manager)

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Nursing Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA

    Deborah Lewis EdD, RN, MPH (Associate Professor and Coordinator) (Associate Professor and Coordinator)

  2. Centre for Global eHealth Innovation Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research, Toronto General Research Institute of the UHN, USA

    Gunther Eysenbach MD, MPH (Senior Scientist) (Senior Scientist)

  3. Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada

    Gunther Eysenbach MD, MPH (Senior Scientist) (Senior Scientist)

  4. Mailman School of Public Health, Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Rita Kukafka DrPH, MA, CHES (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

  5. Oregon Health & Science University, USA

    P. Zoë Stavri MLS, PhD (Assistant Professor, Visiting Assistant Professor, part-time) (Assistant Professor, Visiting Assistant Professor, part-time)

  6. Health Sciences Informatics, SOM, JHU, Chambersburg, PA, 17201, USA

    P. Zoë Stavri MLS, PhD (Assistant Professor, Visiting Assistant Professor, part-time) (Assistant Professor, Visiting Assistant Professor, part-time)

  7. KP Center for Health Research, USA

    Holly B. Jimison PhD (Medical Informatics Investigator, Assistant Professor) (Medical Informatics Investigator, Assistant Professor)

  8. Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97227-1110, USA

    Holly B. Jimison PhD (Medical Informatics Investigator, Assistant Professor) (Medical Informatics Investigator, Assistant Professor)

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Safran, C., Goldsmith, D. (2005). Baby CareLink: Collaborative Tools to Support Families. In: Lewis, D., Eysenbach, G., Kukafka, R., Stavri, P.Z., Jimison, H.B. (eds) Consumer Health Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27652-1_16

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