Patient empowerment: A two way road

Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-health Solutions

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 203-227

  Bos, Lodewijk ^a  

^a International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EHealth; EHR; MHealt; Patient empowerment; Social media; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994112529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1536-7_14     Document Type: Chapter

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