On 21st of March, 2008, the Medical Informatics community lost a free thinker, a true optimist and a humanitarian who tirelessly worked towards a new era of eHealth in Europe and beyond. Jean-Claude Healy passed away very prematurely and suddenly, in his house in Arenas, Saint Jean du Gard at the age of 65. informatics, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics together under the umbrella of Biomedic...

eHealth devices such as smart scales and wearable fitness trackers are a key part of many health technology solutions. However, these eHealth devices can be vulnerable to privacy and security related attacks. In this poster, we propose a security analysis framework for eHealth devices, called mH-PriSe, that will yield useful information for security analysts, vendors, health care providers, and...

Background: Electronic health (eHealth) is the application of information communication technologies across all ranges functions involved in practice and delivery care. The rapid development informatics Internet do not parallel eHealth interventions, knowledge gap needs to be explored. We aimed identify review impact applications (apps) on healthcare interventions.

BACKGROUND More advanced methods and models are needed to evaluate the participation of patients and citizens in the shared health care model that eHealth proposes. OBJECTIVE The goal of our study was to design and evaluate a predictive multidimensional model of eHealth usage. METHODS We used 2011 survey data from a sample of 13,000 European citizens aged 16-74 years who had used the Intern...

ICT investments in South Africa’s public healthcare have not resulted in the efficiencies envisaged as health information systems lacks interoperability. The approval of the eHealth strategy in 2012, introduces a roadmap for hospital information systems interoperability, thus, increase return on investment in ICT spending and improve the collection and quality of health data. EHealth Foundation...

CONTEXT The term eHealth is widely used by many individuals, academic institutions, professional bodies, and funding organizations. It has become an accepted neologism despite the lack of an agreed-upon clear or precise definition. We believe that communication among the many individuals and organizations that use the term could be improved by comprehensive data about the range of meanings enco...

Many European healthcare systems face extensive changes as traditional forms of medical treatment cannot be financed anymore. Structures erode and gaps emerge. eHealth is said to be the solution appropriate to the needs of patients and healthcare professionals. But, although a broad variety of promising eHealth applications can be found, a deeper understanding of reasons for success and failure...

The rapid advance of electronic technology holds the promise for revolu­ tionary improvements in conducting research on alcohol use disorders as well as innovative methods for prevention and treatment. This issue of Alcohol Research: Current Reviews reports on the state of the science and future directions in electronic health (eHealth) technologies and their potential impact on alcohol epidemi...