Connectivity for healthcare and well-being management: Examples from six European projects

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1947-1971

  Kamel Boulos, Maged N ^a   Lou, Ricardo Castellot ^b   Anastasiou, Athanasios ^a   Nugent, Chris D ^c   Alexandersson, Jan ^d   Zimmermann, Gottfried ^e   Cortes, Ulises ^f   Casas, Roberto ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^d GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^e Access Technologies Group Germany   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assistive technologies; Domotics; eHealth; Homecare; Internet; Older people; Telecare; Telehealth; Telehealthcare; Telemonitoring; Well being and lifestyle management; Wireless body area networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUROPE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; TELEHEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEMENTIA; EUROPE; HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY; HUMANS; INTERNET; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 68149117504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph6071947     Document Type: Article

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