E-Health solutions for better care: Characterization of health apps to extract meaningful information and support users' choices

RTSI 2017 - IEEE 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages

  Paglialonga, Alessia ^a   Pinciroli, Francesco ^a   Tognola, Gabriella ^a   Barbieri, Riccardo ^b   Caiani, Enrico Gianluca ^b   Riboldi, Marco ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apps; hearing healthcare; m Health (mobile health); smartphones; tablets

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; AUDITION; DATA VISUALIZATION; HEALTH CARE; MHEALTH; SMARTPHONES;

APP STORES; AUTOMATED APPROACH; CORE SET; E-HEALTH SOLUTIONS; TABLETS; TEXT ANALYTICS; USER SUPPORT;

HEALTH;

EID: 85034856809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RTSI.2017.8065915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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