MHealth applications for clinical education, decision making, and patient adherence in Botswana

2011 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings, IST 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Littman Quinn, Ryan ^a   Chandra, Amit ^b   Schwartz, Adam ^a   Chang, Aileen Y ^a,c   Fadlelmola, Faisal M ^b   Ghose, Sankalpo ^a   Armstrong, Katie ^d   Bewlay, Lesedi ^e   Digovich, Katy ^e   Seymour, Anne K ^f   Kovarik, Carrie L ^a,f  

^a BOTSWANA UPENN PARTNERSHIP   (Botswana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Positive Innovation for the Next Generation (PING)   (Botswana)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

appointment reminders; clinical decision making; drug adherence; Medical education; mHealth; mLearning; mobile; point of care; SMS Query; Telementoring

Indexed keywords

APPOINTMENT REMINDERS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DRUG ADHERENCE; M-LEARNING; MHEALTH; MOBILE; POINT OF CARE; SMS QUERY; TELEMENTORING;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICINE; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELEPHONE SETS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84855768219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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