Improving health information access through social networking

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 334-339

  Freyne, Jill ^a   Berkovsky, Shlomo ^a   Kimani, Stephen ^a   Baghaei, Nilufar ^a   Brindal, Emily ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BROWSING; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; USER INTERACTION; USER PARTICIPATION; USER STUDY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; USER INTERFACES;

HEALTH;

EID: 80055066272     PISSN: 10637125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2010.6042666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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