Enhancing health care delivery through ambient intelligence applications

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 11435-11450

  Kartakis, Sokratis ^a   Sakkalis, Vangelis ^a   Tourlakis, Panagiotis ^a   Zacharioudakis, Georgios ^a   Stephanidis, Constantine ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ambient intelligence (AmI); E health; Health care; Smart hospital; Smart patient rooms; User interface development

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; EHEALTH; SMART HOSPITAL; SMART PATIENT ROOMS; USER INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT;

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; USER INTERFACES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE (AMI); AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; METHODOLOGY; SMART HOSPITAL; SMART PATIENT ROOMS; TELEHEALTH; TELEMEDICINE; USER INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT;

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE (AMI); E-HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; SMART HOSPITAL; SMART PATIENT ROOMS; USER INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84866990932     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120911435     Document Type: Article

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