eHealth is an overarching term used to describe electronic health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies.
eHealth encompasses a whole range of purposes from purely administrative through to health care delivery.
Health information needs to be centred on and organized around people and individual patients, rather than the places where the services are delivered (hospitals, clinics, individual medical practices, etc.).
eHealth will support and enable a more effective, integrated and coordinated approach to communication and information transfer across the various components within the continuum of health care. |
