BPH 4th year HSM-unit 5 (iom)

1. E-Health application
HSM
Unit 5
BPH 4th year

2. • e-Health is the cost effective and secure use of information and
communication technologies in support of the health and health related
fields including healthcare, health surveillance and health education,
knowledge and research. - who
• eHealth or e-health is short for electronic health, and refers broadly to the
use of technology and specifically electronic communication within
healthcare environments.
• eHealth is frequently used to describe health initiatives that use the
internet as a way of delivering health information, data, or services.
eHealth can also include initiatives on mobile phones, tablets and
other mHealth initiatives as well.

3. eHealth Applications?
• eHealth applications are the software and services that manage,
transmit, store or record information used in the delivery of
healthcare treatment, payment or record keeping.
• Typically eHealth applications use the Internet to transmit and store
patient data either for a provider or payer.
• These eHealth applications are used by doctors, hospitals, insurance
providers to record patient health information, called protected
health information or PHI.

4. • eHealth applications come in a wide variety of application uses,
devices, form factors and more.
• For examples:
eHealth can include electronic health records (EHR) or electronic
medical records (EMR) providers and software systems, such as EPIC
EMR, along with mHealth applications such as Apple's new Healthkit
and Health application.

5. • eHealth applications are governed by HIPAA, the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act.
• HIPAA sets the standard for protecting sensitive patient data in
eHealth applications. Signed into law in 1996, HIPAA was initially
created to help the public with insurance portability. In addition, they
built a series of privacy tools to protect healthcare data, including in
eHealth applications.

6. • The wide variety of e-Health services impose different Quality of
Service (QoS) requirements on underlying networks. QoS
• Requirements for e-Health Services
• e-Health Service Classification
• Multimedia Conferencing
• a) Still and Streaming Medical Images
• b) Transmission of Patient Vital Signs
• c) Tele-Robotic System
• d) Research and Education
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7. e-Health Related services
• • Index of available programs and services.
• • Calendar of events.
• • Patient satisfaction surveys.
• • Service provider directories.
• • Patient e-mail services.
• • Health news.

8. Benefits of e-Health
• Improve communication among healthcare
• stakeholders.
• Facilitate better decision support.
• Reduce medical errors.
• Enhance reporting capabilities.
• Encourage disease prevention and wellness

9. e-Health challenges
• 6 main areas of e-Health challenges are...
• o Information (Inaccurate and Incomplete)
• o Human resources (Inadequate or Braindrained)
• o Infrastructure
• o Quality and security of data.
• o Financial and legal issues.
• o Authenticity