Rising above the rhetoric: Mobile applications and the delivery of cost-effective cardiovascular care in resource-limited settings

Future Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-4

  Kazi, Dhruv S ^a,b   Prabhakaran, Dorairaj ^c   Bolger, Ann F ^a,b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INDIA; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MOBILE APPLICATION; PROCEDURES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CELL PHONES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MOBILE APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84921655153     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.14.74     Document Type: Review

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