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2023-09-23 at 10:57 am #41854
Saranath
KeymasterAccording to a paper by Shaw T, et al. on “What is eHealth (6)?”, there are several definitions that can explain “eHealth”. In your opinion, what should be a definition of eHealth?
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2023-09-26 at 1:04 pm #41906
Weerapat Pipithruengkrai
ParticipantIn my opinion, eHealth refers to the intersection of digital technologies and healthcare that serves as a bridge between healthcare providers and patients to contribute the healthcare accessibility and quality. It involves the integration of three key disciplines.
Firstly, information and communication technologies (ICT) are used for enhancing healthcare delivery and improving health outcomes. These technologies offer tools and platforms that can facilitate communication, data sharing, and telehealth services. This discipline is comparable to the “Interacting for health” domain.
Secondly, electronic health records (EHR) are essential for efficient health operation and management. EHR enable comprehensive storage of patient information and simplifies workflows for healthcare providers. This discipline is comparable to the “Data enabling health” domain.
Lastly, mobile health (mHealth) serves as a digital tool for health monitoring, and health informatics systems aid in data analysis and decision support. The mHealth can be accessible everywhere and anytime, which promotes readiness and promptness in delivering healthcare service. This discipline is comparable to the “Health in our hands” domain.
Overall, these three key disciplines establish an approach that not only facilitates the delivery of healthcare services but also allows both healthcare practitioners and patients to access medical services seamlessly.
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2023-09-30 at 11:22 am #42039
Supida Bamrungtrakulsuk
ParticipantFrom my understanding, eHealth is to utilize technologies to enhance the efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency of healthcare to be better. An eHealth project could be classified into or incorporated with three domains, including health monitor, communication, and data sources. The eHealth project is possibly implemented as a health assistant to help users track physical activities and remind them of medicine intake or doctor appointments, to stay healthy and active. Additionally, the eHealth project could be established as a communicator for health follow-up, consultation, and information exchange between patients, doctors, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers remotely. The eHealth project could also be a digital recorder collecting health information, such as medical records, doctor visits, test results, and prescriptions, which could be accessed real-time and remotely by authorized persons to support best practices and guidelines of medical decision-making.
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2023-09-30 at 3:19 pm #42049
Ching To Chung
ParticipantWhile the boundaries that define eHealth are blurry and there could be many interpretations and overlaps for its definition, I think my definition would be ‘the use of information technology to enhance health outcomes.’ This is a definition that is easy to understand and overarching enough to cover all kinds of work that is in the field of eHealth. eHealth covers a wide range of applications and technologies that leverage information technology to improve healthcare delivery and patient care, and overall health outcomes, such as electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine, mobile health (mHealth) apps, wearable devices, and so on.
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2023-09-30 at 6:02 pm #42057
Soe Htike
ParticipantThe definition of eHealth I’d like to propose is “the use of information and communication technologies to improve health and healthcare outcomes, efficiency, and effectiveness. It encompasses a wide range of applications, including electronic health records, telemedicine, mobile health (mHealth), health information systems, wearable devices, health apps, and online health resources. eHealth aims to empower patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare organizations by facilitating access to health information, supporting remote consultations, enabling real-time monitoring, enhancing data-driven decision-making, and ultimately contributing to more efficient, patient-centered, and evidence-based healthcare.”
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2023-10-01 at 1:33 am #42062
Nichcha Subdee
ParticipantAccording to the paper mentioned, the eHealth scope is divided into 3 domains:
– Health in our hands = Individuals use their own technologies and tools, such as mobile devices and wearables, to keep and monitor their health information.
– Interacting for health = Healthcare professionals use technologies to communicate and provide useful information to their patients and their collaborated stakeholders.
– Data enabling health = The management and utilization of collected health data to improve health and health services.In my view, therefore, eHealth can be defined as “the use of health information, technologies, and tools to communicate, analyze, and enhance the ability of healthcare services to improve the quality of life of people.”
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2023-10-02 at 8:05 pm #42094
Teerawat Pholyiam
ParticipantIn my view, eHealth is a broad concept that encompasses the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the healthcare sector. It involves the integration of digital tools and systems to enhance healthcare delivery, management, and patient outcomes.
Below are the three dominant domains of eHealth, as outlined in a paper by Shaw T, et al. titled “What is eHealth (6)?”:
Mobile Health (mHealth): mHealth utilizes mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and clinical devices to support healthcare activities, empower individuals to manage their health, and provide preventive healthcare. Patients often have the best knowledge of their own health, and social media can influence their decisions regarding self-care.
Telecommunication in eHealth: This involves the use of digital communication technologies for healthcare services. It encompasses telemedicine, which enables remote patient consultations, electronic health record sharing, health information exchange, and remote patient monitoring. Additionally, mobile health apps, emergency response services, and healthcare chatbots utilize telecommunication.
Integrated Systems in eHealth: System integration plays a crucial role in eHealth by facilitating the seamless exchange of health information between various healthcare components, systems, and healthcare providers. This enables professionals to manage data for Electronic Health Records (EHRs) alongside other systems, providing real-time data access and other applicable modules.
Mobile Health aims to improve patient care by making it easier to connect, reducing errors, and enhancing the efficiency of healthcare and wellness services, all while adhering to data standards and security measures.
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2023-10-02 at 10:10 pm #42099
Teeraboon Lertwanichwattana
ParticipantIn my perspective, eHealth encompasses two fundamental components that are pivotal in shaping the future of healthcare. The first component, mHealth, revolves around the utilization of mobile wireless technologies, such as smartphones and wearable devices. This facet of eHealth facilitates convenient access to healthcare services and information through mobile applications, enabling remote consultations via telemedicine and real-time health monitoring using wearable sensors. The second component involves the integration of digital networks within healthcare systems. This integration includes electronic prescribing (ePrescribing), which ensures accurate and secure transmission of prescriptions, as well as clinical information systems that centralize patient records for efficient and coordinated care. Additionally, the establishment of referral networks streamlines the process of connecting patients with specialists, fostering a seamless healthcare experience. These components collectively represent the transformative power of eHealth, enhancing accessibility, efficiency, and the overall quality of healthcare services.
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2023-10-02 at 10:49 pm #42101
Suppasit Srisaeng
ParticipantIn my view, eHealth is more than just a technological advancement; it’s an integrated approach that reshapes healthcare delivery and patient management. According to this conceptual framework, eHealth is built on three cornerstone functions:
1. Health in Our Hands: This function empowers individuals through digital tools for self-monitoring and tracking of health metrics. Think wearables for vital signs or apps for diet and exercise management.
2. Interacting for Health: Here, the focus is on harnessing technology to enhance communication within the healthcare ecosystem. This includes features like telehealth for patient-doctor interactions or digital platforms where healthcare professionals exchange expertise.
3. Data Enabling Health: This involves transforming raw health data into actionable insights, which can range from identifying public health trends to tailoring individualized treatment plans.
So, to sum up, eHealth should be understood as a comprehensive approach that utilizes digital technologies to collect and analyze data, foster efficient healthcare interactions, and enable hands-on individual health management. The ultimate goal is to enhance health outcomes, elevate patient engagement, and streamline healthcare delivery.
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2023-10-03 at 8:26 pm #42114
Thitikan Pohpoach
ParticipantAccording to the World Health Organization (WHO), e-health is defined as ‘the use of information and communications technology in support of health and health-related fields’. I think it was already a well-defined definition. Decades ago, this definition might limited to computers to see lab results, electronic health records, or online consultations. These days, e-health encompasses a wider range of uses, from M-health, Telemedicine, clinical information systems, integrated networks, and big data.
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2023-10-04 at 11:39 am #42119
Sirithep Pl
ParticipantIn my opinion, eHealth is the integration of knowledge in healthcare practices with electronic technology into the projects/programmes that improve the health service, education and disease surveillance.
According to Shaw T, et al (2017), the authors provide the three domains of eHealth.
1. Health in our hand: this domain uses the technologies to monitor, track and inform health, for example, the physician can use a mobile phone to access the internet searching for the evidence-based information to support clinical decision making at bedside.
2. Interacting for health: this domain uses the technologies to communicate between stakeholder in health. The examples in this domain are telemedicine that communicates between physician and patient, or teleconsultation that can communicate and consult between general physician and specialists from distant places.
3.Data enabling health: this domain uses the technologies for data collection, data management and use of health data sources that provide the new knowledge and information for healthcare in various levels.
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2023-10-04 at 1:26 pm #42120
Phyo
ParticipantIn this rapidly developing IT era, I believe that the definition of eHealth should go beyond the electronic health system that delivers human healthcare services and interventions. By utilizing massive healthcare data and linking with previous similar scenarios, algorithms of individual health problems should be constructed and solved by using AI and machine learning to provide a clinical decision support system, and personalized treatment plan and guide the patient on behavior change decision-making, etc. Wearable devices monitor patient condition and update healthcare providing real-time data ensuring drug adherence, stability of vital signs, and comprehensive health management.
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2023-10-04 at 5:53 pm #42126
Panyada Cholsakhon
ParticipantE-health in my opinion refers to the use of digital technology that has its primary goal of promoting health and enhancing healthcare outcome. E-health is not only involves the health care sector but also involves the small group people like families or even a person. Electronic medical record is one example of e-health, launching EMRs in the hospital gives benefits in many aspects such as promote effective decision making, reducing time of administrative task, prevent medication errors, etc. Moreover, the smartphones that everybody have in hands, many applications are useful and are able to help people easily manage their health such as making medical appointment online, view the lab results online in their personal health record or having doctor visit remotely from their homes which can also reduce time and save cost for patient who live far away from hospital. Wearable device is another good example of e-health, with its technology, many people could track their vitals and assess their health status just from wearing smartwatches.
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2023-10-04 at 9:29 pm #42128
Myat Htoo Linn
ParticipantAs this was mentioned in the paper as there were a total of 51 unique definitions for eHealth were identified as far back as 2005 and the key informants in this paper also defined different meanings.
Personally, and simply, I have noted the definition of eHealth as the use of digital tools and technologies to enable the better health of the population in various ways under 3 domains. But at that point, I also acknowledged a state-of-mind, a way of thinking, and an attitude of the people in addition to the technical development in a broader sense.
Under the “What is eHealth?” questions in the paper, the responses ranged from representing the current literature as “eHealth is a way to incorporate technology into health care to promote health and well-being”, for those who considered progressive as “eHealth is so pervasive in health research, implementation and practice of health that it’s almost like the oxygen”, and even thought-provoking as “eHealth means the ability to dial a doctor from home and the interconnectedness of all of our medical details”.
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2023-10-04 at 11:01 pm #42130
Pyae Thu Tun
ParticipantThat gives us a good key point of the paper and highlights the different area, thanks Ko Myat Htoo.
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2023-10-04 at 10:58 pm #42129
Pyae Thu Tun
ParticipantBefore reading this paper, I used to think of eHealth as solely managing health data and information using technology and electronic devices, but now I see it covers a wider range of concepts across three overlapping domains.
Since eHealth is a broad term that should be viewed from various aspects of digital technology for health, I would like to propose a possible definition of eHealth as follow:eHealth is the use of digital technologies to collect, track, monitor, communicate, and manage health data and information for individuals, groups, and populations for better health outcomes.
This will reflect the three main domains of eHealth identified in the paper: health in our hands, interacting for health, and data enabling health. It also acknowledges the diversity and complexity of eHealth applications and scenarios, as well as the potential benefits and challenges of eHealth for health care delivery, research, education, policy, and practice.
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2023-10-04 at 11:39 pm #42132
Noi Yar
ParticipantAccording to Shaw T, et al., eHealth encompass three main domains: 1) health in hand; referring to being able to access to health information as and when needed, 2) interacting for health; providing multiple ways of communication among providers and consumers, and 3) data enabling health; which covers design and implementation of technologies and healthcare data management cycle.
eHealth is very broad and is a rapidly growing field. It includes a wide range of services and applications, such as Electronic health records (EHRs), Mobile health (mHealth), telehealth and telemedicine, Health informatics and wearable devices. As ICTs become more sophisticated, I think eHealth services and applications have the potential to revolutionize healthcare, the way of healthcare delivery, access, in a near future.
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