Introduction to the special section on pervasive healthcare

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-234

  Korhonen, Ilkka ^a   Bardram, Jakob E ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER VISION; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES;

AGENT BASED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; HEALTH PROFESSIONALS; HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERVASIVE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; PERVASIVE HEALTHCARE; WEB BASED PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 16544376812     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2004.835337     Document Type: Editorial

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