BACKGROUND eHealth is a broad term referring to the application of information and communication technologies in the health sector, ranging from health records to medical consultations (telemedicine) and multiple forms of health education, support, and tools. By providing increased and anytime access to information, opportunities to exchange experiences with others, and self-management support,...

eHealth Literacy is a crucial topic in regarding the acceptance of consumers towards eHealth services. There are several measurement methods, nevertheless they all lack interactive aspects of trending technologies such as mobile health apps or self-tracking services. Furthermore none of them acknowledges cultural and social backgrounds. Although the topic is of great importance it seems to be u...

Background: Consumer eHealth tools play an increasingly important role in engaging patients as participants in managing their health and seeking health information. However, there is a documented gap between the skill and knowledge demands of eHealth systems and user competencies to benefit from these tools. Objective: This research aims to reveal the knowledgeand skillrelated barriers to effec...

BACKGROUND Slovenia's national eHealth strategy aims to develop an efficient, flexible and modern health care informatics framework that would be comparable to the most successful EU countries. To achieve this goal, the gap between availability and usage of information and communication technology by primary care physicians needs to be reduced.As recent efforts show, consensus on information an...

Tablet computers are slowly being put into use in hospitals and primary care both by clinicians and patients. This paper will examine security needs of tablet-based eHealth applications, and explore how conventional security mechanisms can be adapted to this space. Our approach will be demonstrated by examining a particular eHealth application; a tablet-based Pain Body Map for use in palliative...

We report on our use of ActionGUI to develop a secure eHealth application based on the NESSoS eHealth case study. ActionGUI is a novel model-driven methodology with an associated tool for developing secure data-management applications with three distinguishing features. First, it enables a model-based separation of concerns, where behavior and security are modeled individually and subsequently ...

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...

eHealth indicator and benchmarking activities are rapidly increasing nationally and internationally. The work is rarely based on a transparent methodology for indicator definition. This article describes first results of testing an indicator methodology for defining eHealth indicators, which was reported at the Medical Informatics Europe conference in 2012. The core elements of the methodology ...

Information technology (IT) in healthcare, also referred to as eHealth technologies, may offer a promising solution to the provision of better care and support for people who have multiple conditions and complex care needs, and their caregivers. eHealth technologies can include electronic medical records, telemonitoring systems and web-based portals, and mobile health (mHealth) technologies tha...