A review into eHealth services and therapies: potential for virtual therapeutic communities: supporting people with severe personality disorder

作者: Alice Good , Arunasalam Sambhanthan

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4181-5.CH013

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摘要: eHealth has expanded hugely over the last fifteen years and continues to evolve, providing greater benefits for patients, health care professionals providers alike. The technologies that support these systems have become increasingly more sophisticated progressed significantly from standard databases, used patient records, highly advanced Virtual Reality (VR) treatment of complex mental illnesses. scope this paper is initially explore e-Health, particularly in relation supporting management wellbeing health. It then provides a case study how technology e-Health can lend itself an application could maintain people with severe illness. uses Borderline Personality Disorder as example, but be applicable many other areas, including depression, anxiety, addiction PTSD. This type demonstrates empower individuals using it also potentially reducing impact upon services.

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