On health-enabling and ambient-assistive technologies - What has been achieved and where do we have to go?

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-37

  Koch, Sabine ^a   Marschollek, M ^b   Wolf, K H ^b   Plischke, M ^b   Haux, R ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Home care services; Information storage and retrieval; Integrated advanced information management systems; Medical informatics; Nursing record

Indexed keywords

HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; SELF-HELP DEVICES;

EID: 59349109749     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME9136     Document Type: Article

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