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TopResearch On The Ehealth Industry Policy
With the aging population, a great number of medical problems arose, including increasing chronic diseases, information asymmetries between physicians and patients, difficult and expensive medical treatment and scarcity of professionals and family cares. The rise of the patient-centered eHealth system will provide modern healthcare and medical services to improve disease prevention and diagnosis through advanced network integration, consulting and medical systems. The development of the eHealth can be dated back to 1985, the web/internet or PDA’s (personal digital assistant) were used to provide information. Then till 2004, with the term Web 2.0, which referred to the internet as an interactive medium that allowed users to not just passively consume information but also to upload it, used for the first time, social networks appeared that enabled contact among patients or healthcare professionals. Up to now, technology evolved into environmental systems, like wireless sensors that could be used to monitor and to provide real-time automated feedback at any place, space or time.
Combining health informatics with Telehealth and coordinating with some related elements such as E-commerce and E-learning (Wootton, Patil, Scott, & Ho, 2009) will make the eHealth benefit from Electronic Health Records (EHR), Remote Patient Monitoring and Treatment (RMT), telemedicine and mHealth so that it may revitalize the medical information exchanges more secure, acute, convenient and transparent (Ye & Wang, 2017). At the same time, citizens can electronically transmit, reserve and extract various clinical data by using it (Quesada-Arencibia, Perez-Brito, Garcia-Rodriguez, & Perez-Brito 2018).