Continuous technological developments in healthcare have saved lives and improved quality of life. E-health uses digital technologies and telecommunications to facilitate health improvement and healthcare services. It grew out of a need for improved documentation and patient tracking, especially for insurance reimbursement. E-health provides benefits like time savings, insight into one's own health, and lower administrative burdens. However, barriers to its widespread use include the digital divide and ensuring technologies are accessible to people with disabilities.

1. BY ANJA CAMI
Epoka University 2018
THE IMPACT OF
TECHNOLOGY ON
HEALTHCARE

2. Continuous technological developments
in healthcare have saved countless lives
and improved the quality of life for even
more. Not only has technology changed
experiences for patients and their
families, but it’s also had a huge impact
on medical processes and the practices of
healthcare professionals.

3. E-health, also spelled eHealth, also called e-health
care, use of digital technologies and
telecommunications, such as computers, the Internet,
and mobile devices, to facilitate health improvement
and health care services.
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E-HEALTH
E-health is often used alongside traditional
“off-line” (non-digital) approaches for the
delivery of information directed to the patient
and the health care consumer.
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E-health makes use of a wide array of digital
technologies.
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4. THE NEED
FOR E-
HEALTH
E-health grew out of a need for
improved documentation and
tracking of patients’ health and
procedures performed on patients,
particularly for reimbursement
purposes, such as by insurance
companies. Traditionally, health care
providers kept paper records on the
history and status of their patients.
However, rising health care costs
and technological advances
encouraged the development of
electronic tracking systems. As e-
health technologies continued to be
developed, the field of telemedicine,
in which telecommunication
technologies are used to provide
health care remotely, emerged.

5. BENEFITS
AND
BARRIERS
the use by physicians of computerized drug-
ordering systems that can reduce the risk of
adverse drug events through decision support
systems
onsumer benefits from advances in e-health
include;he ability to order prescriptions over the
Internet for direct delivery to the home.
E-health has also benefited persons with
disabilities who reside in the community by
permitting provider-patient communication
through text, audio, or video conferencing to
gauge home-based progress.
In more extreme situations, e-health has been
used by emergency medical personnel and first
responders for consultation during natural
disasters and in military battlefield situations.
In rural and remote areas this technology has
been used by primary care providers to provide
consultations for patients through direct linkage
to urban-based specialists.
BENEFITS
TIME SAVING
INSIGHT INTO OWN HEALTH
LOWER ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN
EASE OF WORKFLOW
IMPROVED PUBLIC HEALTH

6. BENEFITS
AND
BARRIERS
One of the largest barriers to widespread
consumer use of e-health is the so-called digital
divide.
The digital divide can be defined as a disparity in
access to digital technologies, particularly the
Internet. Whereas people on one side of the divide
have access to those technologies and possess
the knowledge needed to use them, people on the
other side of the divide typically do not.
Although access to electronic communications is
steadily increasing in both developed and less-
developed countries, the increases are not
uniform, and disparities in availability and skill
level persist. Issues such as cost, literacy level,
cultural appropriateness, and compliance with
standards for those with disabilities (e.g.,
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) are
significant barriers in the use of e-health.
BARRIERS

7. E-HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES
The Internet, allows e-health users to communicate with health care professionals by
e-mail, to access medical records, to research health information, and to engage in
person-to-person exchange of text, audio, video, and other data.
Interactive TV, also known as polycom, provides both audio and visual transfer of a
variety of information between two or more individuals at two or more locations in real
time.
Kiosks, are freestanding devices (usually computers), are used in e-health to provide
interactive information to the user. Most information is provided through a series of
interactive prompts on a touch screen. can also be used to collect data and information
from users. DVDs, USB flash drives, and other media are used to store data digitally.
modern mobile devices are designed with personal computing and Internet capabilities
and are compatible with downloadable apps
technologies employed in e-health are accessible to all users, including those with
impairments such as blindness or deafness.

8. E-health means everything will
be doable and available online
for patients and doctors and the
full stop to tons and oceans of
paperwork, such as records and
files, which swallow a large
space of medical centers. This
means bigger returns to the
country’s healthcare sector,
which comes under the
pressure of the must-to-do
tasks: provide healthcare
services, continue doing that all
the time and try to make them
better and affordable. E-health
systems are the password for
that to happen.
but still,
why is
important
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