The Citizen Health System (CHS): A modular medical contact center providing quality telemedicine services

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-362

  Maglaveras, Nicos ^a   Chouvarda, Ioanna ^a   Koutkias, Vassilis G ^a   Gogou, George ^a   Lekka, Irini ^a   Goulis, Dimitrios ^b   Avramidis, Avram ^b   Karvounis, Charalambos ^a   Louridas, George ^a   Balas, E Andrew ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease management; Education; Home care system; Medical contact center; Monitoring; Surveillance; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING;

CITIZEN HEALTH SYSTEM; DISEASE MANGEMENT; MEDICAL CONTACT CENTER;

TELEMEDICINE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HOME CARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEMEDICINE;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HOME CARE SERVICES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 25844470952     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2005.854511     Document Type: Article

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