People and medical professionals use CMC and the Internet to search for health information, communicate with each other, and share their work. Scholars have divided the effects of new technology in medicine into categories: medical consumers search for health information online, internet pharmacies sell medications through e-commerce, and professional healthcare providers communicate with patients and colleagues virtually. The WHO defined eHealth as collaboration between these groups on the Internet in 2005.
1. • People use CMC and the Internet to
search the health and healthcare
information; to communicate with
medical professionals.
• Professionals use CMC and the Internet
to share results of their work; medical
institutions offer services; communicate
with other institutions and colleagues.
2. • In general scholars and medical professionals divided
the effect of the new technology in medicine into the
several users category:
– medical consumers: patient or internet user – people who
use access to CMC and the Internet to seek health and
healthcare information;
– Internet pharmacy: pharmacist and pharmacy networks
who are specialized on selling medications and
prescription by using CMC technologies through the
Internet;
– professional health care providers: professional physicians
and medical institutions who use CMC and the Internet to
communicate with patients, colleagues from other medical
organizations and between medical institutions itself
3. • Collaboration between medical
consumers, internet pharmacy, and
professional health care providers on the
Internet in 2005 by the World Health
Organization (WHO) was defined, as eHealth
(electronic health)
