E-Health As A Probable Platform For Self Medication

E-Health As A Probable Platform For Self Medication. The use of modern communication infrastructures in medicine and the ubiquitous provision of health care services are in general subsumed under the term “e-health”. It necessitates a total reform and digitalization of a health care system, including its production, supply and management. Such technical innovations are expected to improve the quality of health care services, while lowering both the capital and operational costs significantly. Hence, the governments of USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Korea and European Union are keen to shift their traditional health care services to a new paradigm, and to make e­-health a top priority on their policy agendas. Though considerable research effort has been made in the literature relating to developing individual e-health services, there is a lack of an open e-health services platform which would allow the integration of such services into flexible, reliable, multifunctional and cost-effective e-health systems, as well as their large scale deployment and delivery.