Sociotechnical evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of point-of-care mobile computing devices: A case study conducted in India

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 192, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 515-519

  Sittig, Dean F ^a   Kahol, Kanav ^b   Singh, Hardeep ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical Informatics; Patient Safety; User Computer Interface

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL COMPUTING; RURAL AREAS; USER INTERFACES;

FORMATIVE EVALUATION; HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES; PATIENT SAFETY; SYSTEM VULNERABILITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACES;

MHEALTH;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICE SAFETY; DEVICES; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INDIA; MICROCOMPUTER; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; INDIA; PATIENT SAFETY; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84894338880     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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