The Semantic Web and healthcare consumers: A new challenge and opportunity on the horizon?

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 3-5, 2003, Pages 194-212

  Eysenbach, Gunther ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer health informatics; Health information; Information quality; Knowledge management; Quality assurance; Semantic web; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONSUMER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIVACY; REVIEW;

EID: 1942532030     PISSN: 13682156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijhtm.2003.004165     Document Type: Review

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