Ehealth

Ehealth

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  E-Health is anemerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, clinical practice, public health, and business, referring to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies.
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  The RCN defineseHealth (sometimes called digital health) as concerned with promoting, empowering and facilitating health and wellbeing with individuals, families and communities, and the enhancement of professional practice through the use of information management and information and communication technology (ICT).
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  There is moreto eHealth than just technology. It is about finding, using, recording, managing, and transmitting information to support health care, in particular to make decisions about patient care. Computers (and other ICT devices) are merely the technology that enables this to happen.
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  Also e-health refersto various and information and services that is either shared or modified through technology such as the internet.The term itself emerged in the year 2000. It includes virtually all of the aspects associated with medical informatics but also sets the main focus around sending clinical data.
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  •Telemedicine •EMR(Electronic Medical Record) •Health informatics •Evidencebase medicine
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  • An increasein patient safety through a reduction in medical and clinical adverse events • Improved communications between the patient and the carer • Reduction in length of stay due to improved operational efficiency • Rapid intervention during critical periods of care facilitated by real time alerts and reminders • Improved medications management • Access to modern day electronic media and social information
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  • A workenvironment attractive to care providers • Reduction in transcription, legibility and omission errors • Enhanced ability for clinicians to coordinate care because of simultaneous access to the electronic record • Reduced time locating/collecting patient information • Decreased number of avoidable clinical incidents • Reduction in the number of unnecessary administrative tasks, meaning clinicians will have more time to communicate with patients about their care and needs
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  • With eHealthsystem, patients can schedule their appointment with healthcare professional online through healthcare portal. It can save time, cost and extra efforts of patients in an effective manner, as patients do not have to move from their home as they will be able to arrange an online consultation service. • Electronic health data will provide people with clear and more insight into their health. As per their wish, they can even share their health-related information with anyone with just a few clicks (Botha, Botha & Herselman, 2014). Along with these, they will get an account in which, all health-related information will be stored which can be easily be accessed at any time and from any location. So, people do not have to carry their medical reports everywhere. • Doctors have to do less paperwork, as everything will go online. They will be able to share the information among other colleagues in an easy and secure manner. • At the point of care, doctors would be able to get accurate and complete information about the patients and their' medical history. • Doctors and patients would be able to share the information among other clinicians and caretakers. • Privacy and security of eHealth records will be enhanced in an effective manner. • E-Health system will help providers to improve quality, productivity, and work-life balance.
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  • One ofthe main disadvantages of the eHealth system is that it is time and cost consuming. The start- up cost of this system is too high • As all the health-related data of people will store on electronic databases then it might be vulnerable to several cyber-attacks such as denial of service attacks, phishing attack, malware attacks etc. • Security and privacy of each person will be on a stake, as they feel their data might get a breach. • Special training of electronic medical records will be required for people. Along with this, the software will add additional expense in paying people to take training (ELLIOTT et al., 2012). • Due to the instantaneous nature of eHealth records, electronic health records must be updated immediately after the patients’ visit. If this not happens then the next doctor will rely on inaccurate data for treatment protocols. • People will more get panic whenever they get a false alarm or misinterpret a file entry. • There are several liability issues are there with Electronic Health Records implementation. For example, medical records may get destroyed or lost during the transition from a paper-based system to an electronic-based system which could lead to inappropriate treatment (J Johnson III, 2016).