A visual dashboard for moving health technologies from "lab to village"

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Masum, Hassan ^a   Singer, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Biotechnology; Collaboration; Data visualization; Global health; Grand challenges; Information dashboard; Lab to village; Public health; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MODEL; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; ARTICLE; CANADA; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH STATUS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH STATUS; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ONTARIO; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 36048965102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.9.4.e32     Document Type: Review

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