Context Sensitive Health Informatics: Concepts, Methods and Tools

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 194, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-7

  Kuziemsky, Craig ^a   Nohr, Christian ^b   Aarts, Jos ^c   Jaspers, Monique ^d   Beuscart Zephir, Marie Catherine ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e University of Lille   (France)

Author keywords

Context; health informatics; human factors; people; process

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

CONTEXT; CONTEXT-SENSITIVE; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; HEALTH INFORMATICS; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATIONS; PEOPLE; PROCESS; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES;

MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; UNIVERSAL DESIGN; BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDITORIAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY;

HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84891829921     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-293-6-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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