Utilisation of mobile handheld devices for care management at an Australian aged care facility

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 305-312

  Chau, Stephen ^a   Turner, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Care management; Handheld computers; Information systems; Mobile technology; Nursing; PDA; Wireless applications

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; DATA ACQUISITION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NURSING; VOICE ACTIVATED INPUT DEVICES;

CARE MANAGEMENT; HANDHELD COMPUTERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS APPLICATIONS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750312337     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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