Assessing mHealth: Opportunities and barriers to patient engagement

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 935-941

  Martin, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care; Health disparities; HIT; Meaningful use; mHealth; Mobile; Text4Health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864423547     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0087     Document Type: Article

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