Question

eHealth, mHealth, social media and telemedicine are overlapping but useful labels for capabilities slightly unique from one another. Discuss the scope and impact of each, and challenges in their use in health care and public health.

Answer 1

ANSWERS :

1. E HEALTH :

E HEALTH SCOPE : E health improves public health services using technology and e commerce sites. It delivers information regarding health for health care providers using internet telecommunications.

IMPACT OF E HEALTH : E health makes its impacts of various fields like education,training of the clinical professionals with new technological skills and information.

CHALLENGES OF E HEALTH : E health needs to require good information to provide information through e commerce sites. It supports the use of electronic health records.by revisiting barriers development.

2. M HEALTH :

SCOPE OF M HEALTH : M health uses mobile technologies for the purpose of public health activities. It includes mobile applications and networks, patient monitoring devices, social media, personalized health boards on a larger basis.

IMPACT OF M HEALTH : M health removes physical barriers, easier to track medicine supply for diseases through electronic media rather than paper work process in public health.

CHALLENGES OF M HEALTH : To access the M health services it needs more access on electronic health records and health information system and tracking services.

3.SOCIAL MEDIA :

SCOPE OF SOCIAL MEDIA : Social media is used to preserve patient information, it supports communities for patient education through mass media and social media networking sites.

IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA : It will become difficult to save and secure personal information of patients on a larger basis, the information can used misused by the others on the social platforms. Hence privacy and advanced security systems should be developed for social media. Social media supports peers in providing patient education and interests.

CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA : Needs educational training programs to understand the use of social media