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Handbook of Research on Individualism and Identity in the Globalized Digital Age
Smart Open Services for European Patients.
Published in Chapter:
Health, Digitalization, and Individual Empowerment
Alena Lagumdzija (Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden) and Velmarie King Swing (Southern Nazarene University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0522-8.ch017
Abstract
Internet, eHealth and digitalization have opened information access for patients and medical health users. Digitalization provides an opportunity for telemedicine, storage of Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) and net communication for both medical staff and patients with access. Digitalization and technical improvement have increased the usage of Internet based technologies and telephones for positive health coaching and digital-learning applications for all medical users, school staff, and students. The effect of Information Technology on healthcare and medical services can be described as revolutionary. Increasingly, the utilization of digital equipment and medical technology are employed in patients' homes.
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