Development of a smartphone application for clinical-guideline-based obesity management

Healthcare Informatics Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 10-20

  Jeon, Eunjoo ^a,b   Park, Hyeoun Ae ^a,b,c  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b Systems Biomedical Informatics Research Center   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Mobile health units; Obesity; Practice guideline; Telemedicine; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930481663     PISSN: 20933681     EISSN: 2093369X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4258/hir.2015.21.1.10     Document Type: Article

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