Question

Explain in detail the following terms; e-health, m-health, e-therapy, telemedicine, and telehealth and discuss how these fields will continue to expand. Please cite your sources and explain in detail. Thank you.

Answer 1

e HEALTH :

DEFINITION: e health is a relatively recent health care practice supported by electronic process and communication.

• It also refer to various information and services that is either shared or modified through technology.
• it virtually all of the aspects associated with medical informatics But also sets the main focus around sending critical data.

10' es in e health:

• Efficiency
• enhancing quality care
• evidence based interventions.
• empowerment of patient health care.
• Encouragement of new relation ships between the patient and doctor.
• enabling of physician through online sources.
• extending the scope of health care beyond its conventional bounderies.
• equity
• ethics.

e THERAPY:

• It is also called as internet therapy
• it provides therapeutic counselling for the patients through the web.

true e therapy provided by the credential mental health proffessionals such as psychologists,psychiatrists,psychotherapist and social workers.

m HEALTH :

mobile health is a term used for the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices.

the term most commonly used in reference to using mobile communication devices ,such as mobile phones ,Tablets computers and pda's for health services and informatics .

advantages:

• collecting community and clinical health data
• it helps in deliver the health care information to practitioners and researchers
• it help in real time monitoring of patient vital signs
• there is lot of excitement in around m health.

Telemedicine:

It is defined as the use of the tele communication ,to deliver the health care expert sharing of medical knowledge with person are distance locations.

It is transfer of medical data for :

consultations

diagnosis support for clinicalcare

Containing medical education

tele health:

it encompases tele medicime and other uses for commumunication trchnologies.

Mainly used in :

clinical services

emergency department

Administration department

Public health

research and evaluation purposes.

How these fields continue to expand :

• Currently the use of these technology inhealth care system is increased vastly.
• The scope of these technology in health sector is increased now a days .
• these are very useful in the field of military where the injured soldiers are need to take their immediate reach of health care .
• these field scope increased in navy and space nursing also
• These technology very helpful when the patient need immediate response and who are not able to come for hospital area
• these provides low cost and effective care to people
• these decreases burdon of people in out reaching areas .
• help in physician to tally the drugs duplications
• also help ful in research activities
• use of these are limitted in rural areas ,where internet souces are not available properly .