An overview of potential factors for effective telemedicine transfer to Sub-Saharan Africa

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 734-739

  Meso, Peter ^a   Mbarika, Victor W A ^b   Sood, Sanjay Prakash ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING   (India)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Information and communications technologies (ICT); Sub Saharan Africa (SSA); Technology transfer; TeleMedicine

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CORE FACTORS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTHCARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (ICT); INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (SSA); TELEMEDICINE APPLICATION; TELEMEDICINE TECHNOLOGY; TELERADIOLOGY; THEORETICAL BASIS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 70349411677     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2007.899807     Document Type: Review

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