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Transcendent Technology and Mobile eHealth

Charles Musselwhite Orcid Logo, Shannon Freeman, Hannah R. Marston

Mobile e-Health, Pages: 299 - 306

Swansea University Author: Charles Musselwhite Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-3-319-60672-9_14

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Technology is becoming a common place in the lives of all of us, the potential for it to help deliver health and social care is exciting. However, the full potential of this won’t be recognised if there is a failure to understand how such technology is interwoven within our daily lives. It must be r...

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Published in: Mobile e-Health
ISBN: 978-3-319-60671-2 978-3-319-60672-9
ISSN: 1571-5035
Published: Springer International 2017
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