Challenges facing medical data digitization in low-resource contexts

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 365-371

  Shovlin, Alex ^a   Ghen, Mike ^a   Simpson, Peter ^b   Mehta, Khanjan ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IRespond   (United States)

Author keywords

community health workers; electronic medical records; global health; mobile phones; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELEMEDICINE;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES; TELEMEDICINE SYSTEMS;

PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84893920093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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