What is e-health?
By Gunther Eysenbach. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2001
2,098 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Everybody talks about e-health these days, but few people have come up with a clear definition of this comparatively new term. Barely in use before 1999, this term now seems to serve as a general "buzzword," used to characterize not only "Internet medicine", but also virtually everything related to computers and medicine. The term was apparently first used by industry leaders and marketing people rather than academics. They created and used this term in line with other "e-words" such as e-commerce, e-business, e-solutions, and so on, in an attempt to convey the promises, principles, excitement (and hype) around e-commerce (electronic commerce) to the health arena, and to give an account of the new possibilities the Internet is opening up to the area of health care. Intel, for example, referred to e-health as "a concerted effort undertaken by leaders in health care and hi-tech industries to fully harness the benefits available through convergence of the Internet and health care." Because the Internet created new opportunities and challenges to the traditional health care information technology industry, the use of a new term to address these issues seemed appropriate. These "new" challenges for the health care information technology industry were mainly (1) the capability of consumers to interact with their systems online (B2C = "business to consumer"); (2) improved possibilities for institutionto-institution transmissions of data (B2B = "business to business"); (3) new possibilities for peerto-peer communication of consumers (C2C = "consumer to consumer").
Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Information Systems
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Citations in the corpus
- Health Literacy and Health Information Technology Adoption: The Potential for a New Digital Divide (2016, background): “…and compelling health information is pressing. eHealth (the practice of using the Internet and telecommunication technology to provide health communication and services) [4] presents a powerful tool for bringing health information to low health-literate audiences in ways that are easier to access.”
- Determinants of physicians' technology acceptance for e-health in ambulatory care (2012, positive): “For our study, we refer to a widely-used definition by Eysenbach [18], which we consider suitable for the context of EHS in German ambulatory care: “e-health is an emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business, referring to health services and information deli”
- Digital health is a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare. (2017, background): “When personal computers became widely available in the 1990s, e-health emerged (16).”
- Defining Internet-Supported Therapeutic Interventions (2009, neutral): “A number of publications have addressed this issue in an attempt to reduce the ambiguity and to promote clarity and consistency of terms and definitions [5 – 8].”
- FHIRChain: Applying Blockchain to Securely and Scalably Share Clinical Data (2018, background): “Telemedicine clinics are typically networked with larger hospitals [17], but may not establish communications with private or smaller practices.”
- Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems (2008, neutral): “E-health basically comprises health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies (Eysenbach, 2001).”
- Smart health: A context-aware health paradigm within smart cities (2014, neutral): “Eysenbach, 2001 [4] ICT might be used for a variety of healthrelated tasks, including communication between patients, doctors, and carers; distant provision of care; remote support to electronic diagnostic medical records; medication adherence control, and so on.”
- What Is eHealth (3): A Systematic Review of Published Definitions (2005, neutral): “In 11 definitions, [3,12,21,27,28,37,43,45-47,55] eHealth was referred to in terms of commerce, suggesting that eHealth is “health care's component of business over the Internet” [45], the “application of e-commerce to health care and pharmaceuticals” [12], or as “new business models using technolog”
- What Is eHealth (4): A Scoping Exercise to Map the Field (2005, neutral): “(adapted from Eysenbach [22])”