The next generation of mobile medication management solutions

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-31

  Nugent, Chris ^a   Finlay, Dewar ^a   Davies, Richard ^a   Mulvenna, Maurice ^a   Wallace, Jonathan ^a   Paggetti, Cristiano ^b   Tamburini, Elena ^b   Black, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Medea   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Context prediction; e health; Medication management; Mobile medical solutions; Telecare; Web based healthcare

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MOBILE PHONE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; TELEMEDICINE; TELEVISION;

EID: 33846418022     PISSN: 17418453     EISSN: 17418461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2007.011478     Document Type: Article

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