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e-Health

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e-Health (eHealth) is a broad term applied to all types of medical services provided electronically (using computer and Internet) or supported by electronic processes and communication. 

The term can encompass a range of services or systems that are at the edge of medicine/healthcare and information technology, including:

  • Electronic Health Record;
  • Telemedicine;
  • Consumer health informatics: use of electronic resources on medical topics by healthy individuals or patients;
  • Health knowledge managemente.g. in an overview of latest medical journals, best practice guidelines or epidemiological tracking (examples include physician resources such as Medscape and MDLinx);
  • Virtual healthcare teams: consisting of healthcare professionals who collaborate and share information on patients through digital equipment (for transmural care);
  • mHealth or m-Health: includes the use of mobile devices in collecting aggregate and patient level health data, providing healthcare information to practitioners, researchers, and patients, real-time monitoring of patient vitals, and direct provision of care (via mobile telemedicine);
  • Medical research using GRIDs: powerful computing and data management capabilities to handle large amounts of heterogeneous data.
  • Healthcare Information Systems: also often refer to software solutions for appointment scheduling, patient data management, work schedule management and other administrative tasks surrounding health.
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