E-Care Literature Review

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CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 INTRODUCTION
Technology has revamped a lot of sectors around the world. Vast quantities of important data are collected every day from various health institutions whose full worth are not being realized because of the absence of efficient electronic data collected about patients and service users as they pass through health service and other public sector organizations. The information from this data presents enormous potential for research and policy evaluation.
The aim of this project is to realize the potential of electronically-held, person-based, routinely-collected data to conduct and support health-related studies. However, there are considerable challenges that must be addressed before such data can be used for these purposes, to ensure compliance with the legislation and guidelines generally known as Information Governance.
E-health is the process of providing health care via electronic means, In particular over the internet. It can include teaching, monitoring (e.g. physiological data), and interaction with health care providers, as well as interaction with other patients afflicted with the same conditions, about a year ago IBM coined the term “e-care “to describe electronic interaction between patients and their health care …show more content…

Estimates which have liberated for use of computers in medicine are immeasurable. They varied from the ultra-sophisticated to routine and looming practical concept of the computer based patient record, or CPR. Unlike some applications of computers in medicine (NMR scan for example), the concept of CPR was not so much guided by the basic technology which made it possible to do something new, by acknowledging that computers offered a better way to perform an old and hard

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