Ehealth also written as e-health is
a term for healthcare practice which is supported by electronic processes and
communication. It can also be defined as
electronic or digital data for the patients used by the physicians. E-health assures the support for health
behavior changes and enables preventing and managing the chronic diseases.
When analyzing the e-health future
some of the people say that it will adopt rapid changes. Others do not agree
with the statement because they believe that not all the citizens are used to
the idea of paying for the supply of medical information. Another reason for reluctance
is suspicion that technologies used in e-health systems are not accessible and
user friendly. The issue of data privacy is also a major hindrance for e-health
future. In other words they think e-health technology is so complex that it
will not be recommended in the future.
Besides different opinions the vision of paperless hospitals is still
rising for the better quality of healthcare. The use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (EHR) is significantly increasing. Electronic
data is supposed to be the essential parts of the healthcare centers.
In future the need is to build thorough legal framework to keep the
electronic data secure. To fully implement the e-health technology it is desirable
to reduce the discrepancies among population. Another future trend which is
most reasonable for e-health is that it will be able to monitor and treat the
chronic diseases, thus justifying the workload of the medical centers and
reducing the constant travelling for hospitals and medical centers.
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