Improving disease management through a mobile application for lymphedema patients

2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 286-291

  Xu, Christine Shuyu ^a   Anderson, Blake ^a   Armer, Jane ^a   Shyu, Chi Ren ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic disease; GIS; lymphedema; mobile application; self management

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GOOGLE MAPS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEMS; LYMPHEDEMA; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RULES MINING; SELF MANAGEMENT;

DISEASES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 84872043835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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