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From Healthcare Services to E-Health Applications: A Delivery System-Based Taxonomy

From Healthcare Services to E-Health Applications: A Delivery System-Based Taxonomy
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Author(s): Riccardo Spinelli (University of Genoa, Italy)and Clara Benevolo (University of Genoa, Italy)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 32
Source title: Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3926-1.ch046

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Abstract

The increasing adoption of ICT – and especially Internet-based technologies – in healthcare has been very fruitful and has led to the innovative approach to healthcare practice commonly known as e-health. However, the boundaries of this new approach to healthcare are not clear, as it is reflected by the various properties and taxonomies of e-health applications which have been proposed. In this chapter, we first review the definition of e-health and the main taxonomies for its constituents. Then we propose an original taxonomy for e-health applications, based on the structural features of the delivery system of the services which are digitalized: the need for a physical interaction between the subjects involved in the service provisioning and the possibility of delivering the services through Internet-based technology.

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