ePractice EU
“The eHealth Network seeks to bring together the national authorities responsible for eHealth on a voluntary basis to work on common orientations for eHealth. The aim is to ensure EU-wide interoperability of electronic health systems and wider use of eHealth.
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Bos L. Patient Empowerment: A Two Way Road, 2011
This paper will deal with the patient related aspects of e-Health. The use of computing and networking has become an essential element in recent and future developments in health and care. Devices that lead to self-management, access to electronic records, decision support, social networks and social media are some of the major aspects. The production and availability of data and information will lead to a paradigm shift in the physician-patient relationship based on the addition of their respective experiences.
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Alpay L et al, Health Informatics Journal, 17(4)
E-health is seen as an important technological tool in achieving self-management; however, there is little evidence of how effective e-health is for self-management. Example tools remain experimental and there is limited knowledge yet about the design, use, and effects of this class of tools. By way of introducing a new view on the development of e-health tools dedicated to self-management we aim to contribute to the discussion for further research in this area.
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Stroetmann KA
The European eHealth Strategies study analyzed policy development and strategy planning, implementation measures as well as progress achieved with respect to national and regional eHealth solutions in 34 European countries, with emphasis on barriers and enablers beyond technology. The focus was on infrastructure elements and selected solutions emphasized in the European Union eHealth Action Plan of 2004.
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Dominic Tyer, Digital Intelligence Blog
“The European Commission is to set up an eHealth network to help drive technological innovations such as tele-monitoring and e-prescriptions, and improve the safety and efficiency of patient care.
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Beenkens FHC. Acceptance of e-Health Technology (Thesis), 2011
It can be considered a known fact that the number of elderly people will increase during the coming years. According to the most recent predications, this so-called silvering society will not only affect and increase the demand for health care, but also the supply side of health care, since health care professionals themselves will retire with increasing numbers in the near future.
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Ángel Díaz, El Mundo
“Tromso, a veces llamada la ‘puerta del Ártico’, es una pequeña ciudad, de alrededor de 66.000 habitantes, en el norte de Noruega. Es también uno de los principales focos de desarrollo de la telemedicina y la informática médica o ‘e-salud’, motivo por el cual Luis Fernández Luque, onubense de nacimiento e ingeniero informático de carrera, decidió instalarse en esta gélida pero sugerente población.
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ePractice EU
“The Strategy contains a foreword by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy, and sets out the Scottish Government’s vision for eHealth in 2017. The strategy is ambitious; it has the citizen at its centre; and seeks to build on the significant progress that was made collectively over the course of the last three years.
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Ludwig W et al, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2011
Background
Services for the elderly based on health-enabling technologies promise to contribute significantly to the efficiency and effectiveness of future health care. Due to this promise, over the last years the scientific community has designed a complex variety of these valuable innovations. A systematic overview of the developed services would help to better understand their opportunities and limitations.
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Vega LC et al, Health and Technology, 2011
With the exploding growth of the web, health websites have become a dominant force in the realm of health care. Technically savvy patients have been using the web not only to self inform but to self diagnose. In this paper we examine the trust relationship between humans and health websites by outlining the existing literature on trust in health websites. A total of 49 papers were examined using a meta-analytical framework.
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The Bellagio eHealth Evaluation Group
“Addressing global health challenges requires a sound understanding of the different social, political, economic and environmental factors influencing complex health systems, and exploring appropriate and innovative means to treat disease and promote individual and public health. eHealthcan help realize health gains and contribute toward transformational health system changewhenpolicies and implementationsare informed by rigorous and focused evaluation.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“What a surprise that The Australian’s anti-ehealth correspondent, Karen Dearne, didn’t report NEHTA CEO Peter Fleming’s complete dismemberment- at the Senate estimates hearing this week – of her panic-mongering story about the use of tiger teams.
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Sylvia Szabó, The Slovak Spectator
“e-Health – health care supported by electronic processes – is one of the ten priorities of the eEurope 2005 Action Plan, an initiative of the European Union to provide Internet access to European citizens and companies. e-Health’s aim is to create user-friendly and interoperable information systems for patients and health-care professionals in Europe.
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ePractice EU
“The website of the Italian Health Ministry now includes a new section that is dedicated to the theme of eHealth.
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Trevor Lewis, Health Market Innovations
“Over the past several years, eHealth (the use of information communication technology in health) has exploded onto the global health scene. Health programs all over the world are beginning to employ these new tools, funders are looking to support the most innovative and promising uses of information communication technology (ICT), and researchers are avidly discussing the benefits and downfalls of this new field.
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Cabrnoch M, Hasić B. Health and Technology, 2011
In the last few years, electronic healthcare has become a phenomenon that is being widely discussed by both patients and physicians. The Electronic Health Book(EHB) system, a unique Czech solution for eHealth, is developing dynamically in the Czech Republic. EHB is a highly secure overview of a patient’s health and medical information in electronic form, accessible 24 h a day via the Internet. At the same time, it is a safe environment interconnecting healthcare service providers, patients, and health insurance companies. It serves to transfer medical information between the physician and the patient and amongst physicians. In emergencies, it can help save lives.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“I think it is fair to say the e-Health program in general from DoHA and NEHTA is particular are now on notice as far as the Opposition is concerned to do a great deal better job or face some considerable extra scrutiny and accountability down the track. That can only be a good thing in my view.
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Fleurant M et al, Health Affairs, 30(7)
The ability to generate and use registries-lists of patients with specific conditions, medications, or test results-is considered a measure of physicians’ engagement with electronic health record systems and a proxy for high-quality health care. We conducted a pre-post survey of registry capability among physicians participating in the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, a four-year, $50 million health information technology program.
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Bashshur R et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 17(6)
The purpose of this article is to present a taxonomy for telemedicine. The field has markedly grown, with an increasing number of applications, a variety of technologies, and newly introduced terminology. A taxonomy would serve to bring conceptual clarity to this burgeoning set of alternatives to in-person healthcare delivery. The article starts with a brief discussion of the importance of taxonomy as an information management strategy to improve knowledge sharing, facilitate research and policy initiatives, and provide some guidance for the orderly development of telemedicine.
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Telecoms
“Australia’s incumbent fixed and mobile operator, Telstra, is targeting the health sector with services to be deployed in the next year or two. Its strategy has been formulated by a cross-company team that aims to deepen the operator’s involvement in the health sector and incorporate all of its core telecommunications products, in particular expanding on the existing customer relationships owned by Telstra Enterprise & Government and Telstra Business.
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