scholarly journals E- HEALTH: THE MODERN INSTRUMENT FOR IMPROVING HEALTH SYSTEMS AND PROVIDING ACCESSIBLE AND HIGH-QUALITY HEALTH CARE

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1581-1586
Author(s):  
Momchil Mavrov ◽  
Mariya Hristozova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Electronic Medical Records ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
National Health ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
National Health System ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Electronic Health

In the last two decades, information and communication technologies have significantly changed the development of relations in all sectors of public life. The modern information еra has provided unlimited opportunities for free exchange of information on all issues of public importance and the use of new technologies in order to raise the standard of living of members of society and their financial well-being. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are increasingly used in healthcare. A major factor in this trend is the extreme importance of information in medical practice. The way in which information about patients' health status is received and used by healthcare providers has a significant impact on the quality of care. The information itself, the selection and its completeness, becomes a decisive factor for the behavior of the participants in the national health systems - state bodies, medical establishments, professional companies, patient organizations and others.In this sense, the integration of information systems for electronic data interchange provides enormous opportunities for the rapid and efficient management of health information and hence for the more efficient operation of healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals. That's why, one of the most important tools for enhancing the effectiveness of any national health system is the construction of e-health (e-health). E-health is a valuable tool for improving national health systems and providing affordable and high quality health services. The successful construction and use of e-Health improves the communication environment and provides a number of benefits for the relevant national health system as well as for the whole community. In addition to building e-health, an effective healthcare system also requires the creation of an electronic health record for each patient, also referred to as electronic medical records. An electronic health record is a record that contains certain health information for one person in a format suitable for computer processing and use. Creating electronic health records is of great benefit to both patients and healthcare professionals. For example, the introduction of electronic medical records provides quick and easy access for physicians to patients' medical records, enabling them to track all important circumstances and changes in the patient's health status, and to tailor them to conduct specific diagnostic and healing activities.

scholarly journals Current State of ICT in Healthcare Delivery in Developing Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (08) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adebayo Omotosho ◽  
Peace Ayegba ◽  
Justice Emuoyibofarhe ◽  
Christoph Meinel
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Delivery ◽  
Current State ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Information And Communication

Electronic health is one of the most popular applications of information and communication technologies and it has contributed immensely to health delivery through the provision of quality health service and ubiquitous access at a lower cost. Even though this mode of health service is increasingly becoming known or used in developing nations, these countries are faced with a myriad of challenges when implementing and deploying e-health services on both small and large scale. It is estimated that the Africa population alone carries the highest percentage of the world’s global diseases despite its certain level of e-health adoption. This paper aims at analyzing the progress so far and the current state of e-health in developing countries particularly Africa and propose a framework for further improvement.

E-Health Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 281-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirkko Nykanen
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Physician Patient

E-health refers to use of information and communication technologies to improve or enable health and healthcare. E-health broadens the scope of healthcare delivery; citizens are in the center of services and services are offered by information systems often via the Internet. In this chapter e-health systems are classified on the basis of their use and their functionality and the use is discussed from the viewpoints of citizens and health professionals. Citizens are increasingly using Internet and e-health systems to search for medicine or health-related information, and they become better informed and may take more responsibility of their own health. Health professionals are more reluctant to use the Internet and e-health systems in physician-patient communication due to the power and responsibility problems of decisions. In the future the sociotechnical nature of e-health should be considered and future systems developed for real use and user environment with user acceptable technology.

BRIEF REVIEW OF THE ROLE OF TELEMEDICINE IN MANAGING POST COVID19 COMPLICATIONS

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
Md. Mubasheer Ali ◽  
Ayesha Nazneen
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Treatment Needs ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Government

Telemedicine has been successful in proving its effectiveness and in overcoming the main barriers in managing long Covid-19 or post Covid-19 complications. Recognizing the necessity of Telemedicine, considering the current crisis both to address increased treatment needs and to prevent unnecessary in-person contact, Apollo Tele Health (ATH) has adopted an innovative way of Telemedicine in managing patients and helping them recover from post covid complications thus realizing the full potential of advancements in technology for high quality health care delivery. With the onset of Covid-19, ATH has proven to be an essential tool for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of COVID 19 and to mitigate the post covid complications. This has been possible by the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for the exchange of valid health information. Burden on healthcare in India is eased by an integrated effort of the government and other private sector initiatives such as Apollo Tele Health. Telemedicine platform can be used effectively for managing post Covid-19 complications and health education on various risk factors of Covid-19.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned from Implementation of Information and Communication Technologies in Spain’s Healthcare Services

2010 ◽  
Vol 01 (04) ◽  
pp. 363-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Rojas ◽  
J. Carnicero
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Management Culture ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Electronic Health

Summary Background: Spain’s health services have undertaken a number of important projects aimed at the creation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) through the incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into patient care practices. The objective of this endeavor is to improve care quality and efficiency and increase responsiveness to the population‘s needs and demands. Between 2006-2009 over 300 million Euro were invested in projects of this type. Objective: To better understand the success criteria, the difficulties encountered and certain issues that must be kept in mind to ensure successful implementation of ICT projects in health organizations, based on Spain‘s experiences in this field. Methods: The projects’ results are analyzed using the criteria of compliance with the expected scope, cost and time frame. Results: The results can be considered satisfactory in primary care facilities, where almost 90% of Spain‘s general practitioners, pediatricians and primary care nurses are using electronic health record (EHR) systems. In hospitals EHR implementation is more uneven. Over 40% of Spanish primary care centers and 42% of pharmacies are using electronic prescription (the information system that connects the physician to the dispensing pharmacy and the dispensing pharmacy to the payer). Discussion: All of Spain’s health services are currently carrying out projects involving ICT application in healthcare, and a priori the benefits of ICT are not questioned. However, the costs and time frames required for these projects are clearly surpassing initial expectations, while the benefits perceived by both professionals and institutions remain limited. This situation may be due in part to the absence of a project management culture in the health services, which has led them to pay insufficient attention to the main difficulties and key issues related to the implementation of EHR.

scholarly journals Relevant Tools for Tackling Interoperability Problems on Heterogeneous Electronic Health Record Systems: An Exploratory Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
D. Ojeda-Carreño
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ieee Standard ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
Exchange Data

Patients’ medical records have been originally based on paper and since 1865 the medical field recognized the need to improve the means for storing and retrieving disperse information. Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems face similar problems, with interoperability being one of them, it defined by IEEE standard glossary of software engineering terminology as: the ability among information systems to exchange data. Mainly, two perspectives of interoperability emerge: a) syntactic, which refers to the ability of an information system to import and validate grammar, as well as a set of construction rules utterances created by another system; and b) semantic, the ability to exchange data among systems and understand it in the same way, regardless of the source system, also called Semantic Interoperability on Information and Communication Technologies or SIICT. The use of standards, vocabularies and terminologies is a common practice for sharing data among heterogeneous EHR systems in order to face interoperability problems. This heterogeneity starts with the manner to collect and store data. This paper presents to e-health practitioners and researches relevant tools used to achieve interoperability in heterogeneous EHR systems, as well as challenges and future trends to manage EHRs with the intention to achieve SIICT.

scholarly journals Relevant Tools for Tackling Interoperability Problems on Heterogeneous Electronic Health Record Systems: An Exploratory Research

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
D. Ojeda-Carreño
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ieee Standard ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
Exchange Data

Patients’ medical records have been originally based on paper and since 1865 the medical field recognized the need to improve the means for storing and retrieving disperse information. Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems face similar problems, with interoperability being one of them, it defined by IEEE standard glossary of software engineering terminology as: the ability among information systems to exchange data. Mainly, two perspectives of interoperability emerge: a) syntactic, which refers to the ability of an information system to import and validate grammar, as well as a set of construction rules utterances created by another system; and b) semantic, the ability to exchange data among systems and understand it in the same way, regardless of the source system, also called Semantic Interoperability on Information and Communication Technologies or SIICT. The use of standards, vocabularies and terminologies is a common practice for sharing data among heterogeneous EHR systems in order to face interoperability problems. This heterogeneity starts with the manner to collect and store data. This paper presents to e-health practitioners and researches relevant tools used to achieve interoperability in heterogeneous EHR systems, as well as challenges and future trends to manage EHRs with the intention to achieve SIICT.

E-Health Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 2314-2322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirkko Nykänen
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Physician Patient

E-health refers to use of information and communication technologies to improve or enable health and healthcare. E-health broadens the scope of healthcare delivery; citizens are in the center of services and services are offered by information systems often via the Internet. In this chapter ehealth systems are classified on the basis of their use and their functionality and the use is discussed from the viewpoints of citizens and health professionals. Citizens are increasingly using Internet and e-health systems to search for medicine or health-related information, and they become better informed and may take more responsibility of their own health. Health professionals are more reluctant to use the Internet and e-health systems in physician-patient communication due to the power and responsibility problems of decisions. In the future the sociotechnical nature of e-health should be considered and future systems developed for real use and user environment with user acceptable technology.

Evolving E-Health Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 175-188
Author(s):  
Denis Caro
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Organizational Systems ◽  
Health Care Executives ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Health Networks ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Information And Communication

The 21st century continues to witness the transformation of organizational systems globally through the deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The emerging future is witnessing the convergence of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nomadic information systems, and nanotechnology. This promises to further transform the nature of inter-organizational systems between the corporate and public sectors. The evolution of e-health systems is a case in point. In the light of the Wuli-Shili-Renli (WSR) approach, this key informant study explores the strategic perceptions of corporate ICT and health care executives in Canada and Sweden. Public governance values play critical roles in evolving and sustaining symbiotic e-health networks in Canada and Sweden. The chapter exposes the unique transgenic dimensions of evolving e-health systems. The findings and implications of the study underscore the need for further international e-business research on the socio-cultural domains in which inter-organizational systems evolve.

scholarly journals E-Health: Legal and Security Challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
Gabriela Belova ◽  
Stanislav Pavlov
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
National Health System ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
High Level

Abstract In accordance with the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Bulgaria, updated in 2018, the health of Bulgarian citizens is defined as a vital national interest. The analysis of the data on basic health-demographic indicators shows that our country is currently facing significant national security risks associated with a high level of total and premature mortality, high maternal and infant mortality, high level of disability and low life expectancy, as well as low indicators during the years of good health. The authors consider that improving the health of the nation is inextricably linked to the readiness of the national health system to respond and to provide adequate and continuous medical assistance of good quality. One of the major challenges for the contemporary globalized world is the rapid entering of information and communication technologies in healthcare. The article attempts to outline some of the legal and ethical issues that could arise when information and communication technologies are introduced into the healthcare system (e.g. the use of various applications for mobile devices, remote therapy and disease monitoring, etc.) from a point of view human rights doctrine and the protection of personal data.

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