Telemedicine: What have we learned?

Applied Clinical Informatics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-141

  Whitten, Pamela ^a   Holtz, B ^a   LaPlante, C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E health; Telehealth; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884474303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18690327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2009-12-R-0020     Document Type: Review

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