Smartphone Apps Meet Evidence-Based Medicine: The Future of Medicine May (Or May Not) Be in Your Smartphone

IEEE Pulse

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 34-39

  Foster, Kenneth R ^a   Callans, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; SMARTPHONES;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL DEVICES; MEDICAL EXPERTS; MEDICAL RESEARCHERS; SMARTPHONE APPS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY LEADS; WALL STREET JOURNAL;

MHEALTH;

ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY WEIGHT MANAGEMENT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOBILE APPLICATION; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STRESS MANAGEMENT; SUICIDE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WEIGHT REDUCTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; SMARTPHONE;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; SMARTPHONE;

EID: 85037741137     PISSN: 21542287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPUL.2017.2750783     Document Type: Article

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