Chester: Towards a personal medication advisor

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 500-513

  Allen, James ^a   Ferguson, George ^a   Blaylock, Nate ^b   Byron, Donna ^c   Chambers, Nathanael ^d   Dzikovska, Myroslava ^e   Galescu, Lucian ^d   Swift, Mary ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Ohio State University   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Personal medical advisor; Prescription compliance; Spoken dialogue system

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT MONITORING; USER INTERFACES;

HEALTH COMMUNICATION; PERSONAL MEDICAL ADVISORS; PRESCRIPTION COMPLIANCE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER MODEL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATIENT EDUCATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33748189712     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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