Benefits & barriers to adoption of health IT in an elderly low-income, minority community-based environment

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 6441-6443

  Tran, Binh Q ^a   Buckley, Kathleen M ^b   Bertera, Elizabeth M ^c   Gonzales, Pedro L ^a  

^a Catholic University of America   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; BARRIERS TO ADOPTION; COMMUNITY-BASED; ELDERLY POPULATIONS; HEALTH IT; LOW INCOMES;

HEALTH;

EID: 77950989568     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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