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In my opinion, there still remain multiple dimensions of eHealth.
– Networking part — trend towards more patient-centered medicine, whether decision making in case of bad health, or preventing in case of good health; but, can patients be relied upon? Not every person loves their health and their society that much, and not everyone’s first priority, I believe.
– Hardware part, client-side software usage part — mobile phone, smart devices — the outreach of medicine, if someone cares to buy technology, hardware or software. This might also includes telemedicine to reach the patients.
– Server part, admin-side software part, or healthcare institutions’ part — timely, accurate and precision management of medicine. For data-driven and evidence-based. Also, the real cracking of 17V’s, 1C of Big Data, where there needs to be more research.
As for me, I would certainly put emphasis more on patient centered medicine, as it could drive more patient satisfaction, and learning to be more within-reality.
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Hi Patcharapol… I like the networking most….the idea that eHealth is a trend towards more patient-centered medicine. We used to have some ideas like patient-centered, but it’s like patient doing what is asked to do by the health profession. eHealth is like given patients a self-determinant for their health and wellness…hopefully, this can improve adherence to treatment plans as they involve in the deciding process and knowledgable to the plans
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I Think EHealth is the intersection of Bussiness + Public Health + ICT to conceptual design based on relationship about service provider and patient to Change the quality of life for the better and cost effectiveness of services. Patient or people can access to used good quality of health data and health service on safety and privacy of system.
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For me, eHealth is a pinpoint of a paradigm shift in healthcare.
Healthcare used to be part of spiritual or religion because of its ritual and remedies in the primordial and medieval before jumping into scientific revolution by the discovering of the microscope in 1590. The discovery leads to the finding of blood cells in 1670, sterile techniques in 1867, and the germ theory of disease by Loiuse paster in 1870, then hundreds of vaccines for the centuries after, parallel with modern epidemiology developed after Cholera outbreak in London, in 1854. The tool and theory contributed significantly to modern medicine and public health.
For informatics, we also owed to a Persian mathematician, Al-Khwarizmi, who developed Algorithms in the 9th century before bringing into significant usage in “electromechanical machine” invented by Alan Turing in 1936. The development and invention have taken us to a new way of how to look at human health today.
Humorously, eHealth is like the outbreak in 1854. eHealth, which can be defined in so many ways, for my opinions, shortly, is the knowledge, information, and data in the form of electronic that can be used to perform health-related practices. So, from what mentioned by Shaw T et al., I like this one;
You know eHealth is really old fashioned? Nobody talks about eHealth anymore. Electronic Health – everything’s electronic! The devices everythings! We’re talking about digital health, digitizing health, not eHealth.
If to define eHealth in practical, in the transitioning period, I’d choose this one;
The patient probably won’t even notice eHealth because that means that we have the right tools in the rights place being able to be used by the patients and clinicians, and that really supports the delivery of the best possible care.Thus, in my opinion, what we are heading to, in health care is what is cutting-edge, it may be a tool or a theory that can change the way we understand human health. It may be Google’s quantum supremacy (just currently taking of the town) which claims to be a breakthrough in computational science or any new EA in informatics to help us jump into a truely new paradigm in healthcare.
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I think eHealth is the thing that can help the people in two-part which are service-provider and consumer can communicate and/or making considering together in easier way. Moreover, the data or the activities making within the eHealth application can be easy to access (authorized person), easy for further use of that data.
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I admire and agree with this literature that e-health could be 3 overlapping domains included 1.health in our hands, 2.interacting for health and 3. data enabling health. Because either of them cannot represent all of e-health picture. The stakeholders have better to ensure the safety and quality of health care by improving these 3 domains, at the same time, ascertain that consumers have privacy and can access throughout the secured system. For further development, we are able to use data to drive the novel knowledges in order to improve safety and quality of care.
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What is eHealth (6)?
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. In a broader sense, the term characterized 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.”
No single definition can represent the eHealth.
eHealth is a system to provide and promote healthcare through electronic technology like computers, mobiles and tablets, the internet and social media.
As Health definition stand for “state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing not merely an absence of disease or infirmity. Both health care provider and receiver need to a system to be healthy. A system that benefits both. Those system includes eHealth.
eHealth must support a comprehensive approach to health, people-centered health services, safety of patient by reducing the medical and clinical adverse events. Improved communication between the patient and health care provider.
Provide the health care profession with secure and validated information from variety of sources. -
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Hi Aj. Saranath….I think even the two words are interchangeably…the word digital is more theoretical or conceptual…as it refers to something about numbers, or new logical opposes to analogical…the old world we are leaving….the term electronics give more feeling of tools that needs some electronics current to do somethings…more dependent to electrics….digital sounds more visionary but electronics sounds more practical and understandable
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In my opinion, initially eHealth may comes from electronic health because it is the emerging field that health services and information technology, via electronic devices, are intersection.
Nowadays the definition of ehealth is much more boarden, basically , eHealth is still the way to incooperate into health care to promote health and well being. However it is involved in various form of technology
– for patient it involved in forms of wearable machine or self monitoring devices (eg. bloode pressure monitoring, blood glucose monitoring) to collect the data and send to the doctor for diagnosis or treatment plan
– For physician it involved in forms of electronic medical record, remote robotic surgery, realtime long distance consultation such as telehealth between physicians or between patient and physician, diagnostic decision support system etc.
– For pharmacist, paramedics , and public health it involved in forms of electronics medical record, electronics prescription, robotics dispensary systems, disease surveillence projects and also health data resources -
According 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?
eHealth 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. In my opinion, eHealth is a new connecting technology in health that enable medical data and health interaction in our hands. -
I think e-health could be 3 overlapping domains included
1.health in our hands, 2.interacting for health, 3. data enabling health and 3 domain will combile and shareing by eletronic communication such as mobile , internet or wireless tecnology, almose them on web base server or cloud and protect privacy confidential and security of patient data. -
In my opinion, the definition of eHealth should refer to the use of technology to implement, facilitate, develop, and even improve all health service steps. The three domains should be considered because good data should come from a good system, so if the technology is applied in the correct way, it will help to monitor and manage any conditions (health in our hands). Then cooperation between healthcare for sharing, communicating and using patient information will be easy and manageable if technology implementation is systematically utilized (interacting for health). Moreover, the system for managing, storing, and analyzing the gathered data is also required (data enabling health).
As a consequence of this, a good healthcare system e.g. user-friendly system may induce good users and หatisfactory results. -
From Shaw T, et al.’s study, there are domains formed a model of eHealth and this study suggest that eHealth initiatives that are most impactful would include elements from all 3 domains:
(1) health in our hands (using eHealth technologies to monitor, track, and inform health)
(2) interacting for health (using digital technologies to enable health communication among practitioners and between health professionals and clients or patients)
(3) data enabling health (collecting, managing, and using health data)For “eHealth” in my opinion, I agree with this definition. “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. 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. Moreover e-Health is a broader term than either telemedicine or telehealth, including telehealth, telecare, electronic medical records, and use of the Internet, among many other applications.
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According 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?
From Shaw T, et al.’s study, eHealth is the modern 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. Three domains forming a model of eHealth in this study include:
(1) health in our hands (using eHealth technologies to monitor, track, and inform health)
(2) interacting for health (using digital technologies to enable health communication among practitioners and between health professionals and clients or patients)
(3) data enabling health (collecting, managing, and using health data sources)For a definition of “eHealth” in my opinion, I think that it integrated the various tools of information technology to enhance the delivery of health (not just self-health care) to public health and business, referring to health services and information. In a broader sense, this term could enable not only a technical development, but also a way of thinking, an attitude, and a commitment for networked, global thinking, to improve health care locally, regionally, and globally by using information and communication technology.
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