ICT-based health information services for elderly people: Past experiences, current trends, and future strategies

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 251-261

  Marschollek, Michael ^a   Mix, Stefan ^b   Wolf, Klaus H ^a   Effertz, Beate ^b   Haux, Reinhold ^a   Steinhagen Thiessen, Elisabeth ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer health informatics; Elderly people; Health information services; Telematics; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DISABLED PERSON; EUROPEAN UNION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET;

EID: 39649097452     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: 14645246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230701692736     Document Type: Review

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