Designing ehealth that matters via a multidisciplinary requirements development approach

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Van Velsen, Lex ^a,b   Wentzel, Jobke ^a   Van Gemert Pijnen, Julia E W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health care information systems; Health informatics; Requirements analysis; Software design techniques; User centered design

Indexed keywords

EID: 85097570663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.2547     Document Type: Article

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