E-Health can encompass a range of services or systems that are at the edge of medicine/healthcare and information technology. ESO focuses on e-Health innovations for reproductive health and control of communicable diseases through:
- Electronic Medical Records
- Teleradiology & Telemedicine
- Consumer health informatics
- Virtual healthcare teams
- mHealth: including the use of mobile devices for health data
- Mobile health clinics and diagnostic units
- Healthcare Information Systems
Drivers for e-health
- Healthcare becomes more complex due to aging populations and more chronical diseases
- Patients become more demanding with changing needs
- Healthcare to become more accessible and cost effective
- Internet technology still underutilized in healthcare
- E-consult, patient portals or internet therapy for easy access and patient convenience
- More e-health applications embraced by patients and medical staff
- Patients, care providers and insurers benefit
Types of e-health
- ‘Doctor to doctor’; D2D
- Teleconsult, electronic medication file (EMF), electronic patient file (EPF)
- ‘Doctor to patient’; D2P
- Telemonitoring, teleradiology, CAD, e-consult or sharing and insight in medical data
- ‘Patient to patient’; P2P
- communities (Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in), rating of hospitals forums, weblogs
