Experiences with bulk SMS for health financing in Uganda

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 383-398

  Densmore, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

braided communications; bulksms; health; ictd; mobile phone; sms

Indexed keywords

BULKSMS; FAILURE POINTS; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMAN ERRORS; ICTD; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES; SMS;

HEALTH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE PHONES; TEXT MESSAGING;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 84862687156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2212776.2212816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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