Design and development of a patient-centered e-health system to improve patient understanding at discharge

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 453-476

  Nicolas Rocca, Tonia San ^a   Schooley, Benjamin ^b   Joo, Seong Jong ^c  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Malik and Seeme Hasan School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Information systems design theory; Media richness theory; Media synchronicity theory; Mobile patient education system; Patient centered e health

Indexed keywords

EHEALTH; HEALTH LITERACY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DESIGN THEORIES; MEDIA RICHNESS THEORY; MEDIA SYNCHRONICITIES; PATIENT EDUCATION;

DESIGN; HEALTH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 84893029368     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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