What is e-health?

摘要: 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, term now seems to serve as general "buzzword," used characterize not only "Internet medicine", also virtually everything related computers and medicine. The was apparently first by industry leaders marketing rather than academics. They created line other "e-words" such e-commerce, e-business, e-solutions, so on, an attempt convey the promises, principles, excitement (and hype) around e-commerce (electronic commerce) health arena, give account possibilities Internet is opening area care. Intel, for example, referred "a concerted effort undertaken care hi-tech industries fully harness benefits available through convergence care." Because opportunities challenges traditional information technology industry, address issues seemed appropriate. These "new" were mainly (1) capability consumers interact their systems online (B2C = "business consumer"); (2) improved institutionto-institution transmissions data (B2B business"); (3) peerto-peer communication (C2C "consumer consumer").