Development and practice of a Telehealthcare Expert System (TES)

Telemedicine and e-Health

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 549-556

  Lin, Hanjun ^a   Hsu, Yeh Liang ^a   Hsu, Ming Shinn ^b   Cheng, Chih Ming ^b  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Smart Care Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

commercial telemedicine; expert system; home telehealth; telehealth; telehealthcare

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HOSPITALS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NURSING;

CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMMERCIAL TELEMEDICINES; GENERAL HOSPITALS; HOME TELEHEALTH; MEASUREMENT DATA; SYSTEM APPLICATIONS; TELEHEALTH; TELEHEALTHCARE;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICE FAILURE; EVALUATION STUDY; EXPERT SYSTEM; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOME CARE; HUMAN; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING STAFF; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TAIWAN; TELEMEDICINE; TIME; VITAL SIGN;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HOME CARE SERVICES, HOSPITAL-BASED; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; TAIWAN; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84899777599     PISSN: 15305627     EISSN: 15563669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2012.0190     Document Type: Article

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