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What is E-Health Ethics

Chapter 25
Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration
Also referred to as Health Internet Ethics (Hi-Ethics), considerations to ensure the equitable distribution of health benefits for individuals and families through using e-health to disseminate health services. Concerns include protecting information privacy, ensuring that current, reliable health information, and advice is shared using e-health approaches, and that access to services is available to all.
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Digital Divide and E-Health Implications for E-Collaboration Research
Michele Masucci (Temple University, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-000-4.ch024
Abstract
E-health has rapidly gained attention as a framework for understanding the relationship between using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote individual and community health, and using ICTs for improving the management of health care delivery systems. The use of e-collaborative tools is implicit to the delivery and access of e-health. Development of the capacity to transmit and receive digital diagnostic images, use video telecommunications for supporting the remote delivery of specialized care and surgical procedures, and the use of e-communication technologies to support logistical elements of medical care (such as scheduling appointments, filling prescriptions, and responding to patient questions) are just a few ways in which e-communications are transforming how medical care is embedded within institutional, organizational, family, and community settings.
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