Global eHealth

Global Health Through EHealth/Telehealth

Telemedicine: Opportunities and Developments in Member States: Report on the Second Global Survey on eHealth 2009 (Global Observatory for eHealth Series, Volume 2)

(ICTs) gave us new and innovative wave of communication life such as living in cyber space, instant messaging, and communications with whom anyone in anywhere. These are changing not only life-style, but also mode of business in every industry. Health care service industry is resource-intensive, processoriented, and doing business traditionally by method of confrontation between medical profess...

Book Review: mHealth: New Horizons for Health through Mobile Technologies: Based on the Findings of the Second Global Survey on eHealth (Global Observatory for eHealth Series, Volume 3)

with more intelligent and versatile connectivity and communication capabilities. The unprecedented spread of mobile technologies as well as advancements in their innovative capacity to address health priorities has evolved into a new field of eHealth known as mHealth (mobile health). By the end of 2010, there were nearly 5.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions in the world, with over 85% of the ...

Evaluating eHealth: Undertaking Robust International Cross-Cultural eHealth Research

eHealth—the use of electronic tools in delivering health care [1]—is rapidly emerging as an international priority in nations at all levels of development, yet the benefits and priorities have not clearly been defined. The result is that there is an urgent need for additional research in this area. International research to evaluate the impact of eHealth would be especially helpful, and unless ...

eHealth International

Welcome to eHealth International. In this journal we will look at technology from the perspective of the health professionals and patients using it. We will focus on applied technologies i.e. technologies with practical applications that have the potential to improve both quality of and access to healthcare. This is an exciting time with respect to the new technologies available in healthcare. ...