EHealth: Extending, enhancing, and evolving health care

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages 359-382

  Meier, Carlos A ^a   Fitzgerald, Maria C ^a   Smith, Joseph M ^a  

^a West Health Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

delivery of health care; eHealth; Internet; quality of health care; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EHEALTH; ITS EFFICIENCIES; QUALITY OF CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INTERNET; TELEMEDICINE;

HEALTH CARE;

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERNET; REVIEW; TELEMEDICINE;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880549705     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: 15454274     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071812-152350     Document Type: Review

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