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Technologies for E-Health Care: E-health employs a variety of digital technologies. E-healthusers can, for example, connect with health care professionals via e-mail, access medical records,do health research, and engage in person-to-person exchanges of text, audio, video, and otherdata via the Internet. Interactive television, also known as polygon, allows for real-time audioand visual communication between two or more people in two or more places.Users' data and information can also be collected using kiosks. Data is stored digitally on DVDs,USB flash drives, and other media. Many modern mobile devices include personal computer andInternet capabilities, as well as the ability to download applications (or apps) that provide userswith rapid access to health data. Many of the e-health technologies are accessible to all users,including those with disabilities like blindness or deafness.Benefits and Drawbacks: Both providers and consumers who use e-health have advantages anddisadvantages. Physicians' use of computerized medication-ordering systems, which can lowerthe risk of adverse drug events through decision support systems, is one of the positive effects.Similarly, automatic digital reminders can boost orders for suggested preventive measures likeyearly physicals, mammograms, and prostate exams. E-health has been utilized by emergency13
medical staff and first responders for consultation during natural disasters and military battlefieldcircumstances in more extreme situations. Primary care professionals in rural and remotelocations have employed this technology to provide patients with consultations by connectingthem directly to urban-based specialists. E-health has also been employed as a basic andcontinuing education distance learning technique. Advances in e-health have aided internationalcollaborative endeavors by making information readily available to health care providers andconsumers. Consumers benefit from improvements in e-health by being able to obtainprescriptions over the Internet and have them delivered directly to their homes. Hospitals andother acute care facilities maintain Web pages detailing their expertise and services for patients.E-health has also assisted community-dwelling people with disabilities by allowing provider-patient communication via text, audio, or video conferencing to track home-based progress.Health Cloud:is much more than a customer relationship management system. It combines thepower of cloud technology with specific healthcare language to allow everyone involved in thepatient journey, from healthcare team members to patients to payers, to access vital informationproperly and efficiently at any time. Health Cloud is a patient relationship platform thatsimplifies patient care coordination with the purpose of putting each patient at the center of thecare system. It does so by offering a comprehensive perspective of the patient, improved patient

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