WISTA: A wireless telemedicine system for disaster patient care

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 201-214

  Chu, Yuechun ^a   Ganz, Aura ^b  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11g; Bluetooth; Disaster; Multimedia; Patient information; Telemedicine; Wireless

Indexed keywords

BLUETOOTH; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL IMAGING; VIDEO CAMERAS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; MULTIMEDIA DATA; PATIENT INFORMATION; SENSOR INFORMATION;

TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 34548272062     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-007-0012-6     Document Type: Article

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