I have found definitons for separate keywords, but no definition for the "e-health platform". So what is it?
Which e-health platforms do you know?
In my understanding, and after combining the definitions below:
"e-health platform is hardware and operating system on which software applications can be run to provide digital data—transmitted, stored and retrieved electronically—for clinical, educational and administrative purposes".
Definitions:
"e-health" describes the combined use of electronic communication and information technology in the health sector, and also the use of digital data—transmitted, stored and retrieved electronically—for clinical, educational and administrative purposes, both at the local site and at distance” [Mitchell]
"e-health" is a field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and business, referring to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies“ [Eysenbach].
A platform is “a group of technologies that are used as a base upon which other applications, processes or technologies are developed. In personal computing, a platform is the basic hardware (computer) and software (operating system) on which software applications can be run.”
For example: a Raspberry Pi 3B (hardware) that:
runs a Windows IoT Core (operating system),
collects measurements over Bluetooth Low Energy from a blood pressure meter (hardware),
provide the collected measurements (data) over REST API (electronically)
would be an e-health platform by definition.
A eHealth platform it is a digital tool designed to support a process related with healthcare and a health outcome
Hi,
In my work I have defined a platform that enables eHealth or other care interventions as a reusable core of functionality with various interfaces that change the interaction with people at the periphery. This then covers video, physiological measurements, data and machine learning platforms. In the way that a social media platform can be reused to facilitate different use cases the central core of most technology platforms are communication, processing and storage. This is reflected in Aleksandr's answer. However, most of my work has taken the platform as an iterative development and focused on the sociotechnical nature of how the peripheral interfaces enable new ways of working. My experience is that most of the obstacles to using technology arise not because of the technology itself but the way in which it disrupts practice.
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