SMARTHealth India: Development and field evaluation of a mobile clinical decision support system for cardiovascular diseases in rural India

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Praveen, Devarsetty ^a,b   Patel, Anushka ^c   Raghu, Arvind ^d   Clifford, Gari D ^e   Maulik, Pallab K ^a,d   Abdul, Ameer Mohammad ^a   Mogulluru, Kishor ^a   Tarassenko, Lionel ^d   MacMahon, Stephen ^c,d   Peiris, David ^c  

^a GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Clinical decision support systems; Community health worker; Developing countries; Mobile health; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942603753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3568     Document Type: Article

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