Mobile services provide value by decoupling the time and location constraints in healthcare delivery

Proceedings - International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, eTELEMED 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 216-219

  Ilvonen, Karita ^a   Groop, Johan ^a   Lillrank, Paul ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL MEDICINES; HEALTHCARE DELIVERIES; MOBILE HEALTH CARES; MOBILE SERVICES; NEW APPROACHES; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENTS; SERVICE PROVISIONS; TRADITIONAL SERVICES;

LIFE CYCLE; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 63849266040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eTELEMED.2009.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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