Metrics for assessing the reliability of a telemedicine remote monitoring system

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 487-492

  Charness, Neil ^a   Fox, Mark ^a   Papadopoulos, Amy ^b   Crump, Cindy ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AFrame Digital Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

e health; home health monitoring; telehealth; telemedicine reliability measures identify

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; FIRMWARE; HEALTH; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OXIMETERS; RELIABILITY; REMOTE CONTROL; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); SURVEYS; TELEMEDICINE; TELEPHONE SETS; WATCHES;

E HEALTH; HOME HEALTH MONITORING; POTENTIAL MEASUREMENTS; REAL-TIME HEALTH MONITORING; RELIABILITY MEASURE; RELIABILITY METRICS; REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM; TELEHEALTH;

MONITORING;

AGED; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; REMOTE SENSING; REPRODUCIBILITY; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; FLORIDA; HUMANS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84896552208     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2012.0143     Document Type: Article

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