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Health Portals: An Exploratory Review

Health Portals: An Exploratory Review

Daniel Carbone
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 8
ISBN13: 9781605660509|ISBN10: 1605660507|EISBN13: 9781605660516
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch005
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Carbone, Daniel. "Health Portals: An Exploratory Review." Medical Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Joseph Tan, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 57-64. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch005

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Carbone, D. (2009). Health Portals: An Exploratory Review. In J. Tan (Ed.), Medical Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 57-64). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch005

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Carbone, Daniel. "Health Portals: An Exploratory Review." In Medical Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Joseph Tan, 57-64. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch005

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Abstract

A lack of health services has long been the thorn in the side of many communities, especially rural and regional communities. The high costs of treating ever growing chronic and complex conditions in traditional settings, where rural allied health services providers are non-existent and doctors are already overcommitted, are prompting a shift in focus to more efficient technology driven delivery of health services. Moreover, these days it is also increasingly unlikely that health professionals will encounter patients who have not used information technology to influence their health knowledge, health behaviour, perception of symptoms, and illness behaviour. Advances in Internet technologies offer promise towards the development of an e-health care system. This article will postulate whether portal technologies can play a role facilitating the transition to such e-health care systems. This article aims at reviewing the literature to present to the reader the barriers and opportunities out here for effective health portals. However, the article does not intend to provide a one-fits-all technical/content solution, only to make implementers and developers aware of the potential implications.

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