Community medicine

1. Digital Health

6. Information technology
A system for storing, retrieving & sending information.

8. Mobile Health (mHealth)
Mobile devices to deliver health care services

10. Mobile computing
Medical sensor
Communications technologies

11. Benefits of mHealth

12. Challenges

13. eHealth
• The cost-effective and secure use of information and
communications technologies in support of health
and health-related fields
– Health-care services
– Health surveillance
– Health literature
– Health education
– Research

15. 3 main core areas of eHealth
1. Health systems management
2. Improve public health services
3. Delivery of health information

16. Components of eHealth
• Mobile health (mHealth)
• Telehealth
• Telemedicine
• Electronic medical or health records (eMR/eHR)
• Clinical Information System

17. The 10 e's in "e-health"
1. Efficiency
2. Enhancing quality
3. Evidence based
4. Empowerment of consumers and patients
5. Encouragement of a new relationship
6. Education of physicians
7. Enabling information exchange
8. Extending the scope of health care
9. Ethics
10. Equity

18. Benefits of eHealth
• Easy & quick communication
• Reduces paper work
• Time saving
• Cost‐effective
• Confidentiality
• Bridging the gap of inaccessibility
• Easy monitoring of patients conditions
• Reduces medical errors
• Patients can make better health decision
• Keeping track of the daily patient activities
• Emergency situations

19. Limitations/Challenges of eHealth
• Expensive
• Time-consuming to bring eHR up-to-date
• Ethical issue regarding privacy and security
• Difficult to understand by the commoners
• Shortage of resources (personal, infrastructure etc)
• Difficult to access eHR due to digital divide
• Generating interference in the doctor- patient relationship

20. Digital Health
• The field of knowledge and practice associated with
the development and use of digital technologies to
improve health. (WHO 2021)

25. Digidoctor
• Unique ID for doctors
• e-Prescription
• Verification of doctors by NHA
• Updating qualification
• Updating employment
• Feedback and rating

26. Healthcare facility registry
• Unique ID
• eForm & eSign
• GIS
• Verification by NHA
• Auditing
• Automatic benefit enablement

27. Health ID
• Unique ID
• Linking with Aadhaar
• Linking with family
• Convergence of different schemes
• Automatic benefit enablement

28. Personal health records
• PDF & scanned health record
• Power of consent
• Prescription & reports in PHR
• Metadata
• Analysis

29. WHO- Global strategy on digital health
2020-2025
Purpose
 To strengthen health systems through the application of
digital health technologies for consumers, health
professionals, health care providers and industry towards
empowering patients and achieving the vision of health
for all.

30. WHO- Global strategy on digital health
2020-2025
Guiding principles
1. Digital health requires a commitment by countries
2. Digital health initiatives require an integrated strategy
3. Appropriate use of digital technologies for health
4. Address the major impediments faced by poor countries

31. WHO- Global strategy on digital health
2020-2025
Strategic objectives

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