Abstract
E-health plays a significant role in giving valuable information to the people about human life. E-health is commercial and protected use of data about the health, information and communication technology (ICT), and its associates with the health-related directions and human health activities. ICT or e-health includes different interventions like telehealth, telemedicine, m-health (mobile health) e-health registers (EHR), big data, wearables, and uniform artificial intelligence. In life there is no time for paper and pen work in the countries, and they are change completely to the digitalization and sharing health information and patient health data through the online mode, which is more simple and successful healthcare improvements. Such healthcare apps are useful to us to lead better, well, and more fruitful lives. E-health can be one of the important hopeful aspects for providing community health benefits which incorporates a predictable medical system.
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With the help of internet and other related latest technologies E-health distributes the information about the medical health informatics, health of the public, business issues and important health services which are useful to the public. E-health means transfer of health information and health precautions through electronic media. The advanced electronic devices like telecommunications, electronics and informatics help E-health in health caring process (Sandesh, 2019).
E-health is a wide word and it discusses the use of health related data and advanced communication technologies that is used for the newest data and advanced communication technologies in health related areas, for example gathering information, keeping data, returning data, evaluating and super vision the information, merging the automated health registers, circulating and distributing health related therapeutic data, operations and isolated health care units, extra informative and useful E-health care cards. The main goal of E-health is to communicate with patients to know their health condition and to upgrade their health conditions (Yousef, 2012).
For development, evaluation and planning of E-health the different premediated methods are needed and advanced health care is important to take additional care about the patient health and continue to transfer the information and develop good values among the patients. E-health provides a penetrating possibility platform to transform health projection practices and decision making system that facilitate and coordinate the nursing of patients. Particular IT allows for the protected argument in order to provide patients payers regime and other applicable stakeholders who will be able to positively affect enduring treatment and people health promoting the reliable and thick share out manipulation, E-health technology is regarded as an authoritative tool to recover the condition of health care system at on sale loss and efficiency of health care system at low price out lay in alignment with the triple aim.
Currently, the world is facing an important growth of smartphone handlers (Kakria et al., 2015). Now a days animation mobile handsets are very useful and critical for everyone. Mobile phones are acting as eminent part to crack health related issues and at hand is fortune to acquire qualification in the company of users. To become aware of a patient who desires lead treatment are available with the help of WLAN/GPRS/3G network, we use Global Positioning system (GPS), Short message services (SMS) and cassette meeting. Now disparity, the patient can decide his or her physical situation by grasp person-bio indication and preserve win a resolution of once to get for doctors consultancy. Through the globe continual disease are the mainly ordinary causes of demise (Viswanathan et al., 2012). E-health is an umbrella call that connects healthcare and technology to nursing ancestors. (Van Rooij & Marsh, 2016).
Matteo (2017) presented views of different researchers and experts on using electronic health in the field of solving pulmonary disease like asthma. Stevens (2019) worked on development of eHealth apps and concluded that a better understanding of possible adverse effects could be a starting point in improving the positive impact of eHealth-based health care delivery.
Kadir (2020) worked on the role of telemedicine in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic in the developing countries and concluded that telemedicine play an important role in minimizing virus speed, effectively utilizing the time of health care professionals, and reducing the mental health issues also. Zheng et al. (2020) have provided the importance and role of pharmaceutical care in China perspective during COVID-19 pandemic situation. Hong et al. (2020) explained the success of using tele medicine in western China and suggested the other parts of the world to follow similarly and also concluded that practicing telemedicine was feasible, effective way during COVID -19 pandemic. Hind and Sarah (2021) have presented a rapid systematic review on the role of eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine for chronic disease patients during COVID-19 pandemic situation.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Telehealth: Telehealth is simply defined as the distribution of health-related services through telecommunications technology.
E-Health Registers: E-health register is defined as a chart which maintains the complete details and health cart of a patient/patients exclusively in a digital format.
E-Health: E-health is defined as a new healthcare and service providing processes which involves the implementation and usage of information and technology for treating various health problems virtually.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT): Information and communication technology refers to diversified set of tools and services used for storing, applying, and communicating data to the different fields when and wherever required.