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eHealth (also written e-health) is a relatively recent term for healthcare practice which is supported by electronic processes and communication. The term is inconsistently used: some would argue it is interchangeable with health care informatics and a sub set of Health informatics, while others use it in the narrower sense of healthcare practice using the Internet. Health care informatics has been defined as "A field of study concerned with the broad range of issues in the management and use of biomedical information including Health informatics or medical informatics is the intersection of Information science, Computer science, and Health care. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks The term can encompass a range of services that are at the edge of medicine/healthcare and information technology:


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Definitions

A seminal 2001 definition published in the article What is e-health? J Med Internet Res 2001;3(2):e20, by eHealth researcher Gunther Eysenbach is among the most frequently cited and reads:

e-health is an emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business, referring to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies. Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, is a senior researcher on Open access, health policy EHealth, and Consumer health informatics. In a broader sense, the term characterizes not only a technical development, but also a state-of-mind, a way of thinking, an attitude, and a commitment for networked, global thinking, to improve health care locally, regionally, and worldwide by using information and communication technology.

EU ICTs for Health: eHealth describes the application of information and communications technologies across the whole range of functions that affect the health sector, from the doctor to the hospital manager, via nurses, data processing specialists, social security administrators and - of course - the patients.

An article by Oh et al. (2005) attempted to examine all existing literature on the subject. Oh H, Rizo C, Enkin M, Jadad A. What Is eHealth (3): A Systematic Review of Published Definitions in the J Med Internet Res 2005;7(1):e1 article

One of the earliest descriptions of the eHealth field was published in 2001. Alejandro (Alex Jadad (born August 9, 1963, in Colombia, South America is a physician educator researcher and public advocate Eng, TR. The eHealth Landscape: A Terrain Map of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies in Health and Health Care. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. [1]

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References

  1. ^ Jochen Fingberg, Marit Hansen et al. The European Institute for Health Records or EuroRec Institute is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 as part of the ProRec initiative EUDRANET, the European Telecommunication Network in Pharmaceuticals ( E uropean U nion D rug R egulating A uthorities Net Health 20 (as well as the closely related concept of Medicine 2 : Integrating Data Custodians in eHealth Grids – Security and Privacy Aspects, NEC Lab Report, 2006.

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