Telehealth and ubiquitous computing for bandwidth-constrained rural and remote areas

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 533-543

  Steele, Robert ^a   Lo, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Broadband; e health; Health care; Mobile health; Rural and remote; Telehealth; Ubiquitous computing; Wireless health

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND; EHEALTH; MOBILE HEALTH; TELEHEALTH; WIRELESS HEALTHS;

BANDWIDTH; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE DEVICES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 84871678405     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-012-0506-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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