title: Applied medical informatics for the chest physician: information you can use!--Part 3.
abstract: In this third and last part in our series on applied medical informatics (AMI), we will examine the following: (1) a concise wrap-up of the practice steps necessary to achieve the benefits from AMI in your practice; (2) an introduction to the patient health-care record and why it is important to physicians; and (3) a look at some of the latest developments in AMI that are of interest to the chest physician.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, 3916 Taubman Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0360, USA. wbria@umich.edu
authors.forename: William F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Bria
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011216:Practice Management, Medical