Heuristic evaluation of ehealth interventions: Establishing standards that relate to the therapeutic process perspective

JMIR Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Baumel, Amit ^a,b   Muench, Fred ^a  

^a FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital health; eHealth; Evaluation; Heuristics; MHealth; Mobile health; Principles; Therapeutic process

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015232488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23687959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mental.4563     Document Type: Review

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