541 research outputs found

    Applied ethics and eHealth: principles, identity, and RFID.

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    The social and ethical implications of contemporary technologies are becoming an issue of steadily growing importance. This paper offers an overview in terms of identity and the field of ethics, and explores how these apply to eHealth in both theory and practice. The paper selects a specific circumstance in which these ethical issues can be explored. It focuses particularly on radio-frequency identifiers (RFID). It ends by discussing ethical issues more generally, and the practice of ethical consideration

    Peer Review eHealth Strategy and Action Plan of Finland in a European Context

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    Finland has been eHealth forerunner with a long history of digitalized health care information. We are now implementing national eHealth solutions which will make standard format patient and medication information available for patients and health care professionals. EU and OECD have been doing surveys on eHealth development and policy within EU countries, Finland has regularly been one of the top countries. Next survey will be published within few months. At this phase of national development minister of Health and Social Services Maria Guzenina-Richardson wanted to get a more focused expert view based on wider material and deeper understanding that is possible with these more general questionnaires. This review will be used also with eHealth strategy process

    The roadmap to healthcare digitalization: factors that affect the Portuguese approach to ehealth

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    Healthcare systems worldwide need to improve health outcomes while reducing costs. Increasing demand for chronic disease management, such as pulmonary disease, is driving digital transformation in healthcare. The Kata® inhalation app aims to improve patients' inhalation techniques through a data-based algorithm. This study aims to classify Portugal’s proneness to healthcare digitalization. Specifically, it investigates to which extent Portugal is lagging compared to digital pioneers and how it can keep up with advancements in a rapidly evolving technological world. The results suggest that Portugal is a positive example of eHealth but its main challenges are patients’ low digital trust and inoperability across infrastructures and health subsystems

    Telemedicine

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    Telemedicine is a rapidly evolving field as new technologies are implemented for example for the development of wireless sensors, quality data transmission. Using the Internet applications such as counseling, clinical consultation support and home care monitoring and management are more and more realized, which improves access to high level medical care in underserved areas. The 23 chapters of this book present manifold examples of telemedicine treating both theoretical and practical foundations and application scenarios

    Initiatives to integrate primary and acute health care, including ambulatory care services

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    Most people, at some time in their lives, will require health care services from multiple health care providers, whether it is for short-term unexpected ill health, long-term chronic conditions or co-morbidities that cross disciplines (eg. substance-related conditions and mental health). Integration of health services is particularly important for patients with chronic and complex conditions as they must frequently negotiate a path through different health care sectors, including primary, acute and ambulatory care services, as well as the public and private health jurisdictions. Standardised pathways for the more common chronic conditions may be needed to enable seamless transitions and avoid negative outcomes that may result from delays, duplications and errors in a system that operates as multiple independent organisations
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