ICTD for healthcare in Ghana: Two parallel case studies

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 118-128

  Luk, Rowena ^a   Zaharia, Matei ^b   Ho, Melissa ^c   Levine, Brian ^d   Aoki, Paul M ^e  

^a AMITA Telemedicine Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

^e INTEL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Remote medical consultation

Indexed keywords

DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS; HIGH-LEVEL DESIGN; LESSONS LEARNED; MEDICAL COMMUNITY; RESEARCH AGENDA; TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE; TEXT MESSAGES; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

RESEARCH; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 77951573416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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