Embedded ubiquitous services on hospital information systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1216-1223

  Kuroda, Tomohiro ^a   Sasaki, Hiroshi ^b   Suenaga, Takatoshi ^c   Masuda, Yasushi ^d   Yasumuro, Yoshihiro ^e   Hori, Kenta ^f   Ohboshi, Naoki ^g   Takemura, Tadamasa ^h   Chihara, Kunihiro ⁱ   Yoshihara, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SENDAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Accense Technology Inc   (Japan)

^e KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f GUNMA PREFECTURAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^g KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

ⁱ OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital Camera; echograph; hospital hnformation system (HIS); ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SOFTWARES; CLINICAL PROCESS; CLINICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS; ECHOGRAPH; FUNCTIONAL UNITS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNAL NETWORK; MEDICAL DEVICES; UBIQUITOUS SERVICE;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL CAMERAS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VIDEO CAMERAS;

HOSPITALS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; ARTICLE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870927232     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2210434     Document Type: Article

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