The MyHealthService approach for chronic disease management based on free open source software and low cost components

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 1234-1237

  Vognild, Lars K ^a   Burkow, Tatjana M ^b   Luque, Luis Fernandez ^a  

^a Northern Research Institute   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; DISEASES; HEALTH; MHEALTH; OPEN SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT; CONSUMER HEALTHS; FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; HEALTH CARE BUDGET; HEALTH EDUCATION; LOW COSTS; NUMBER OF PEOPLES; PERSONAL HEALTH;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 77950998280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333475     Document Type: Conference Paper

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