Telemedicine in the upper Amazon: Interplay with local health care practices

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 403-425

  Miscione, Gianluca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Accountability; Amazon; Developing countries; Ethnomethodology; Healing practices; Knowledge transfer; New institutionalism; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PERSONNEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

AMAZON; ETHNOMETHODOLOGY; HEALING PRACTICES; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER;

TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 34249311315     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148797     Document Type: Article

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