Remote health-care monitoring using Personal Care Connect

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-113

  Blount, Marion ^a   Batra, Virinder M ^b   Capella, Andrew N ^b   Ebling, Maria R ^a   Jerome, William F ^a   Martin, Sherri M ^b   Nidd, Michael ^c   Niemi, Michael R ^b   Wright, Steven P ^d  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d IBM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; HEALTH CARE;

PERSONAL CARE CONNECT (PCC); REMOTE HEALTH-CARE MONITORING;

PATIENT MONITORING;

EID: 33947129730     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.461.0095     Document Type: Article

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