An evaluation of mobile health application tools

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Sama, Preethi R ^a   Eapen, Zubin J ^a,b   Weinfurt, Kevin P ^a,b   Shah, Bimal R ^a,b   Schulman, Kevin A ^a,b  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular phone; Internet; Medical informatics applications; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014641803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3088     Document Type: Article

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