Mobile apps for eye care in Canada: An analysis of the itunes store

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Rodin, Alexander ^a,b,c   Shachak, Aviv ^d   Miller, Aaron ^e   Akopyan, Vladimir ^b   Semenova, Nataliya ^b  

^a TorontoEyeExamcom   (Canada)

^b LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c CanMedApps Inc   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mobile applications; Mobile phone; Ophthalmology; Optometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048494867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.7055     Document Type: Article

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