Mobile health and wellness application framework.
@article{Laakko2008MobileHA,
title={Mobile health and wellness application framework.},
author={Timo Laakko and Juha Lepp{\"a}nen and Jaakko L{\"a}hteenm{\"a}ki and Antti Nummiaho},
journal={Methods of information in medicine},
year={2008},
volume={47 3},
pages={
217-22
}
}OBJECTIVES
There is an increasing need for user-friendly and interoperable mobile applications in health and wellness domain. The objective of this work has been to provide support for rapid and cost-effective development of such applications.
METHODS
We have introduced an application framework which provides a generic tool for mobile application designers. We have demonstrated the usage of the application framework by providing an example implementation and demonstrating its usage in a Tele…
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