Digital home health and mHealth: Prospects and challenges for adoption in the U.S

2011 50th FITCE Congress - "ICT: Bridging an Ever Shifting Digital Divide", FITCE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fife, Elizabeth ^a   Pereira, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business models; eHealth; Mobile health; Tele Health

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES; DIGITAL HOME; EHEALTH; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; LOWER COST; MARKET FORCES; MHEALTH; MOBILE HEALTH; MOBILE HEALTH CARE; MOBILE TELE-HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SERVICE PLATFORMS; TELEHEALTH; VALUE PROPOSITION;

DIGITAL DEVICES; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

HEALTH;

EID: 84857177113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FITCE.2011.6133431     Document Type: Conference Paper

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