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E-health: A New Perspective on Global Health

e-health is a process of providing health care via electronic means, in particular over the Internet. The term e -health has been used to describe the variety of activities related to the electronic exchange of health-related data, voice or video. 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 using information and communication technology. This paper is commissioned in light of the rising profile of e-health on the international policy agenda and the emerging Indian Programme for Information Technology and related developments in the National Health Service. Few developments in public health today create the sense of energy and opportunity embodied in the word "ehealth". The promise of e -health lies in the manner to build advancements in the development of a health infrastructure. India is actively developing and implementing technological solutions to deliver health information and health care services across the country. These solutions, while exciting and promising, also present new challenges, particularly in regard to acceptable standards, choice of technologies, overcoming traditional jurisdictional boundaries, up-front investment, and privacy and confidentiality. This paper will discuss how e -health provides the opportunity for the patients to maintain independence longer and for the providers to monitor a condition more closely. It also describes the barriers and challenges to and the current status of ehealth. Also, an attempt is made for presenting the e-health status in the Indian scenario. Further, its technological and financial barriers are illustrated and recommendations are provided for the improvement.

A Few Words About E-Health

Today's systems and organizations that provide health care meet the complex requirements of providing efficient and cost-effective service, where the quality and safety of medical services must be at the highest level. Taking into account the need to improve the quality of the new generation of health care systems, electronic companies with their solutions in the field of health care want to help health institutions and other entities involved in the health system in improving efficiency, timeliness, safety and overall quality of medical services.

THE INTERNET – MEANS OF COMMUNICATION AND PROMOTION OF THE VIRTUAL MEDICAL WORLD

2010

In the world of health care, most specialists appreciate information and communication as a major component in this area. Thus, the Internet becomes also in health -the main source of information and communication of professionals in the system, facilitating access to databases, electronic publications and medical journals, information and expertise, to sites of medicine based on evidence. If there are millions of medical websites worldwide, the specialist in the health system in search of a drug, a procedure, of a product or therapy, can replace the entire medical library shelves with a computer connected to the Internet. By accessing the pages of the medical clinics, discussion forums on various diseases, websites of groups of individuals with severe diseases, physical disability or great psychological impact, patients can obtain important medical information. But there is a risk in this medical information explosion that requires the recipient a very great deal of discretion in its use. The commercial assault of excessive promotion of drugs brings also the risc of self-medication and self-treatment so that competent and authorized medical decision is excluded. If in the case of doctors the facility for accessing digital information eliminates many timeconsuming cases, for patients the quality of the medical information on the Internet can become downright dramatic. If a Romanian patient calls to health services available on the Internet without regard for hts history, family history, and collateral data included in the health care file, the risk of erroneous medical decision is imminent. To guide the community of consumers and providers of health services, growing by the WWW environment to find reliable information and medical expertise can be a challenge for policy makers in the health system contributing to a better and more efficient health care process. JEL classification: I19, O3, O31, D8, D83, L86, L15

Telemedicine And Medical Informatics: The Global Approach

2007

Telemedicine is brought to life by contemporary changes of our world and summarizes the entire range of services that are at the crossroad of traditional healthcare and information technology. It is believed that eHealth can help in solving critical issues of rising costs, care for ageing and housebound population, staff shortage. It is a feasible tool to provide routine as well as specialized health service as it has the potential to improve both the access to and the standard of care. eHealth is no more an optional choice. It has already made quite a way but it still remains a fantastic challenge for the future requiring cooperation and coordination at all possible levels. The strategic objectives of this paper are: 1. To start with an attempt to clarify the mass of terms used nowadays; 2. To answer the question "Who needs eHealth"; 3. To focus on the necessity of bridging telemedicine and medical (health) informatics as well as on the dual relationship between them; as ...

(Bio)Medical Knowledge centers – Compunetics as the Foundation for Global e-Learning

v Foreword Over the past decades, evolution in medical research and technologies, cultural, social and demographic changes and globalization have confronted healthcare systems with new situations and subsequently require new solutions. The ultimate goal becomes that of delivering the best possible health service for anyone, at any time, from anywhere.

Issues of Formation and Application of E-Medicine

Problems of Information Society

The paper is devoted to the topical issues of formation of e-medicine. As an integral part of e-science and e-health, the problems of e-medicine and international support were investigated and main directions of its development are shown. The role of e-medicine was specified in realization of 4P personalized medicine and disease rehabilitation.