Exploring e-patients' heterogeneity: Towards personalized e-health applications

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Josefsson, Ulrika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

E health; E patients; Information use environment; Internet; Personalization; User context

Indexed keywords

E-PATIENTS; EHEALTH; HEALTHCARE SERVICES; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; MEDICAL DATA; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE ACTIVITIES; PERSONALIZATIONS; PROBLEM RESOLUTION; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; USER CONTEXT;

HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; INTERNET;

HEALTH;

EID: 84870637999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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