Imhere: A novel mhealth system for supporting self-care in management of complex and chronic conditions

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Parmanto, Bambang ^a   Pramana, Gede ^a   Yu, Daihua Xie ^a   Fairman, Andrea D ^a   Dicianno, Brad E ^b   McCue, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic disease management; Clinician directed self care; Mhealth; Mobile health; Patient clinician communications; Self care; Self management; Smartphone; Spina bifida; Telehealth; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85106541485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.2391     Document Type: Article

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