The effectiveness of australian medical portals: Are they meeting the health consumers' needs?

19th Bled eConference "eValues" - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Moon, Jane ^a   Fisher, Julie ^a  

^a Department of Information Technology ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

eHealth; Health consumers; Usability

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BUDGET CONTROL;

CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; EHEALTH; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; GOVERNMENT IS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; USABILITY; USABILITY TESTING; USABILITY TESTS;

HEALTH;

EID: 84925871483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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