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Description
The e-Health specialist is a professional with high technical qualifications in digital technologies, IT and telecommunications capable of developing equipment, widgets and digital systems that should enable the development of new medical technologies and services to be applied to health practice. Consequently, this professional usually works in companies supplying technology (hardware and software), equipment, widgets and health-related services.
E-Health, which is characterised by the automation of medical management support processes and non-presence between the patient and the health professional, is an emerging field where medical informatics, the desire to improve public health, the provision of medical services more efficiently and developments in information and communication technologies through the internet and developments in digital technologies that are connected, such as the possibility of storing and managing data in the cloud, apps or chatbots, all come together.
This discipline is therefore defined as the application of these technologies in the field of health and has its origins in the desire to improve the monitoring of patients' health. The need to automate these procedures responds firstly to the same complexity in the management of files and medical records and secondly to the possibilities of information and communication technologies. This has led to the development and adoption of electronic systems for the management and monitoring of patient records, incorporating interaction with the person requiring treatment.
In short, e-Health systems allow healthcare professionals to focus most of their attention on the patient, records are automated, waiting times are reduced and therefore patients see their waiting time reduced and administrative barriers to prescribing medicines are removed. E-Health therefore introduces new ways of delivering healthcare services that facilitate collaboration between different healthcare institutions and enable the sharing of crucial information, allowing new ways of interacting with patients.
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