Introduction to the special section on m-Health: Beyond seamless mobility and global wireless health-care connectivity

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 405-414

  Istepanian, Robert S H ^a   Jovanov, Emil ^b   Zhang, Y T ^c  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Body area networks; M Health; Mobile technologies; Sensors; Wireless technologies

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELEMEDICINE; WEARABLE COMPUTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BODY AREA NETWORKS; MEDICAL SENSORS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

HEALTH CARE;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA BASE; EDITORIAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNATIONALITY; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 10644233142     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2004.840019     Document Type: Editorial

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