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Implementation of Electronic Health Records Among Community Mental Health Agencies

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Acknowledgements

Xiaoling Xiang received funding from US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living, NIDILRR grant number H133P130013 (PI: Allen Heinemann, PhD).

Thank you to the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (the National Council) for collecting and sharing the survey data analyzed for this manuscript.

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Michael R. Lardiere was the Vice President Health Information Technology and Strategic Development at The National Council (1701 K St, NW Ste.# 400 Washington, D.C. 20,006). He was instrumental in providing access to the data from the National Council. He did not participate in the analysis of the data. He participated in the authorship of the final manuscript when employed at AVP Strategic Program Development Behavioral Health Service Line.

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  1. School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1010 Nevada St., Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Christopher R. Larrison PhD

  2. Center for Education in Health Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 633 N St. Clair, 20th Floor, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA

    Xiaoling Xiang PhD

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Abbott Hall Suite 1220, 710 N Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL, 60611, USA

    Mara Gustafson PhD

  4. Northwell Health, AVP Strategic Program Development Behavioral Health Service Line, 75-59 263rd St., Glen Oaks, NY, 11004, USA

    Michael R. Lardiere LCSW

  5. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Abbott Hall Suite 1220, 710 N Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL, 60611, USA

    Neil Jordan PhD

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Larrison, C.R., Xiang, X., Gustafson, M. et al. Implementation of Electronic Health Records Among Community Mental Health Agencies. J Behav Health Serv Res 45, 133–142 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-017-9556-9

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