DocumentCode
564915
Title
A peer-facilitated diabetes self-care management support system using mobile telephony
Author
Sultan, Salys ; Mohan, Permanand
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
fYear
2012
fDate
21-24 May 2012
Firstpage
193
Lastpage
194
Abstract
This paper presents a mobile health system called Mobile DSMS which is based on the collaborative disease management framework using mobile technologies. Mobile DSMS allows patients with similar disease management interests to virtually gather and share experiences, ask questions and provide support and problem-solve remotely through the use of mobile devices.
Keywords
diseases; groupware; health care; human computer interaction; medical administrative data processing; mobile computing; telephony; user interfaces; collaborative disease management framework; mobile DSMS; mobile devices; mobile health system; mobile technologies; mobile telephony; peer-facilitated diabetes self-care management support system; Buildings; Ground penetrating radar; Medical services; collaborative disease management; human-computer interaction; mobile dsms; remote peer-support;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2012 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1483-1
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-936968-43-5
Type
conf
Filename
6240386
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