E-health technologies: The future healthcare

• Main Authors: Snehal Tare, Deepali Garge
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2020-01-01
• Series: Journal of Dental Research and Review
• Subjects: e-health; health services; healthcare; internet
• Online Access: http://www.jdrr.org/article.asp?issn=2348-2915;year=2020;volume=7;issue=5;spage=58;epage=61;aulast=Tare

E-Health is referred as electronic means of assisting healthcare services. It describes health initiatives that use digital platform for delivering healthcare data and information. It has several benefits like: It helps in paperless record management, gives fast access to patients' medical record, initiates easy collaboration between multiple departments in the hospitals, enhances efficiency of hospital and healthcare work, provides accurate information so less chances of error in the entire process of medical record maintenance, allows to book appointments for medical checkup, provides variable pricing list based on insurance policies and generates graphical reports. In the future, it is expected that the e-health technology will bring revolution in healthcare sector and it needs continuous improvement in developing information and communication technologies. Healthcare professionals will prefer automated systems as patients can also access the e-health data from healthcare service provider.