The Healthcare sector digitalization is in a phase of dynamic growth. Numerous countries are already implementing eHealth strategies and investing strongly in IT infrastructure and companies, while start-ups are introducing infinite modern mobile solutions. Information is becoming as vital as medicine, now focusing more on replacing curative treatment with preventive one.
Along with their digital awareness, the expectations of patients, doctors and nurses are also rising. Mobile health apps have obtained quick popularity, resulting in healthcare being at our fingertips instead of behind the door of an examination room. We are witnessing the appearance of the new healthcare reality, where information serves as a solving-problem pill.
eHealth has become a symbol of the democratization of healthcare and an opportunity to meet the challenges caused by an ageing society, the epidemic of non-communicable and chronic diseases, and the dramatically rising healthcare costs. It gives us the hope that we can ensure personalized and coordinated care to patients, and more efficient preventive treatment, due to a secure electronic health record available anywhere, anytime.
To thoroughly understand eHealth, to learn how we can fully take advantage of it and to overcome its challenges, keep in touch with our website. (Crawford et al., 2016)
