eHealth Efficiency Enhancing quality Evidenced based Empowerment Encouragement Education Enabling Extending Ethics Equity Eysenbach,G What is e-Health
{"Image DocumentName": "eHealth Efficiency Enhancing quality Evidenced based Empowerment", "Image ImageDescription": "Encouragement. Education. Enabling. Extending. Ethics. Equity. Before we go on to unit 8 discussion, let\u2019s take a minute to look at eHealth. Gunther Eysenbach, in his article in Journal of Medical Internet Research , identified 10 qualities of eHealth. Efficiency \u2013 avoiding duplication. Enhancing quality \u2013 improving quality of care and outcomes. Evidenced based \u2013 proven by rigorous scientific evaluation. Empowerment \u2013 records accessible, patient centered medicine, enables evidenced based patient choice. Encouragement \u2013 relationship between the patient and health professional, decisions are made in a shared manner. Education \u2013 continuing medical ed, health ed and information for consumers. Enabling \u2013 information exchange and communication. Extending \u2013 enables consumers to easily obtain health services online from global providers. Ethics \u2013 poses new challenges and threats to ethical issues such as online professional practice, informed consent, privacy and equity issues. Equity \u2013It was believed that computers would allow everyone to access information, but not everyone has the money, skills, and access to computers and networks or cannot use computers effectively. Results in an inequity. Eysenbach,G. What is e-Health J Med Internet Res 2001; 3(2):e20. <URL:http://www.jmir.org/2001/2/e20/>", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}