Will an app fill the gap? innovative technology to provide point-of-care information

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Codyre, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support systems; Emerging technology; Information communication technology; Medical informatics; Mobile application; Patient adherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940115791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00009     Document Type: Article

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