Mobile technologies: Expectancy, usage, and acceptance of clinical staff and patients at a university medical center

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Illiger, Kristin ^a   Hupka, Markus ^a   Von Jan, Ute ^a   Wichelhaus, Daniel ^b   Albrecht, Urs Vito ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data protection; Health care; Medical staff; Mobile apps; Mobile health; Patients; Privacy; Staff attitude; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099705601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3799     Document Type: Article

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