An overview of recent health care support systems for eEmergency and mHealth applications

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1246-1249

  Kyriacou, E C ^a   Pattichis, C S ^b   Pattichis, M S ^c  

^a FREDERICK UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EMERGENCY SERVICES; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MHEALTH; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EMERGENCY HEALTHCARES; EMERGENCY TELEMEDICINE; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE SYSTEMS; SUPPORT SYSTEMS; VIDEO TRANSMISSIONS;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77950968454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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