Genomics and Proteomics

E-Health, Telemedicine

E-Health: E-health is also called e-health care, use of digital and communication technologies, such as computers, the Internet, and mobile devices, to facilitate health development and health care services. E-health is often used in conjunction with traditional "offline" (non-digital) methods of delivering targeted information to the patient and the healthcare consumer.

Need for E-Health: E-health grew in the need for improved documentation and patient health monitoring and procedures performed on patients, particularly for recovery purposes, such as insurance companies. Traditionally, healthcare providers kept paper records in the history and status of their patients. However, rising costs of health care and technological advances have encouraged the development of electronic tracking systems. As e-health technology continued to evolve, the field of telemedicine, in which communications technology was used to provide health care remotely, emerged.

E-Health technologies: E-health uses a wide range of digital technologies. The Internet, allows e-health users to communicate with health care professionals via email, access medical records, research health information, and engage in person-to-person exchange of text, audio, video, and other data. Interactive TV, also known as polycom, provides both audio and visual transmission of various information between two or more people in two or more locations in real time.