Advances in eHealth
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 68033
Special Issue Editors
Interests: consumer health informatics; clinical decision making; evaluation
Interests: health Informatics; healthcare; health; health care management; eHealth; medical informatics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
e-Health offers new ways to access health information, to deliver health and social care, and to perform self-management, and adoption of e-Health solutions has increased substantially during the last decade.
Globally, more than half of all WHO Member States have developed National e-Health strategies, but the progress of their implementation is rarely monitored to document the outcome and proof of significant improvement of health, and social care system performance is still lacking. Moreover, for consumers, such as patients and the general public, it is difficult to know to what extent they can access or influence the delivery and further development of e-Health services.
Nevertheless, further development of e-Health services is crucial to offer better quality and effectiveness and to overcome some of the most challenging issues around easy access, inequality, and equity in health and social care delivery, not least in times of pandemics.
The scope of this Special Issue is to outline the major challenges and future perspectives of e-Health for health and social care delivery as well as self-management.
The goal of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for researchers to share their latest achievements, covering a diversity of articles and work that reflect the state-of-the-art of e-health issues and challenges.
Subject Coverage
We hereby invite papers covering a broad range of topics.
Topics for the Special Issue include but are not limited to:
a) Case studies of implementation and development of e-Health policies;
b) Development and evaluation of citizens use and expectations on e-Health;
c) Institutional issues that influence e-Health innovation;
d) Privacy, security and safety in e-Health;
e) Conceptual papers and systematic literature reviews in relation to decision making around health;
f) e-Health initiatives to allow patient empowerment;
g) Tools/technologies facilitating end-users’ description of health-related web resources in social networks.
Prof. Dr. Sabine Koch
Prof. Dr. Christian Nøhr
Prof. Dr. Vivian Vimarlund
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eHealth
- innovation
- policies
- evaluation
- privacy
- social networks
- institutional issues
- evaluation
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