Introduction into eHealth and how to develop it into healthcare organizations

1. WHAT IS EHEALTH?
Easy Access to the word of Digital Health

2. AREYOU FAMILIAR WITH
EHEALTH?
• Telemonitoring
• Mobile health
• Digital health
• Distant care
• Connected health
• Etc..

3. ehealth is not what you think it is…
but still you haven’t got it wrong …

4. ehealth is not what you think it is…
but still you haven’t got it wrong …
DISTURBING?

5. “EHEALTH”:

6. “EHEALTH”:
A CONTAINER CONCEPT..

7. This is the consensus:
eHealth or digital health is an
encompassing concept for all
health care services using the
internet, on line…
“EHEALTH”:
A CONTAINER CONCEPT..

8. …WITH THE ABSOLUTE
AMBITION TO
create better care
and outcomes,
costing less, but to
the satisfaction of all!

9. We could distinguish:
A Medicine /
Physicianorientation: A Patient orientation:
to technology, like
IT and medical records,
to monitoring and adherence,
(big) data and reimbursement
to information, advice,
self-monitoring,
feedback and less “ado”

10. AND FEATURES LIKE ..
• Informing / educating .. in general and personalized ways
• measuring, recording, tracking, archiving
data/information, experiences, evaluations, opinions, notes
• Enable functions that will support behavior
• enabling communication and interaction
• facilitating shared decision making
• assist to perform actions and interventions
• lead processes
• Process data to learn

11. AND FEATURES LIKE ..
• Informing / educating .. in general and personalized ways
• measuring, recording, tracking, archiving
data/information, experiences, evaluations, opinions, notes
• Enable functions that will support behavior
• enabling communication and interaction
• facilitating shared decision making
…to optimize the process of heath care
to better outcomes!
• assist to perform actions and interventions
• lead processes
• Process data to learn

12. IN DIFFERENT FORMATS
• through computers or mobile devices
• using all kinds of medical devices, wearables
• health apps in smartphones
• or “watches” and other kinds of wearables
• smart patches or other disposables, clothing and
• things we couldn’t say now, because they are still not invented ..

13. LIKE ONE OFTHESE..?

14. an assembly
of equipment and functionalities,
which as a unit
supports the activities of related
stakeholders through
the use of internet ..

15. TOO COMPLICATED?
only if there is just one format that is “right” ..
which is not!
INSTEAD:
we may already speak of
digital or eHealth initiatives
in yet small applications
and do not need to cover all at
once, ..
which, by the way, might still be a step too far
…

16. Besides
there is no need to ..
recent research shows the positive impact
of small on line services to patients!

17. Along with the patients’ uptake of
your customized services to them,
you can guide your organization
to a proper and tailored solution
Imagine!

18. Take your journey into digital/eHealth
step by step
allowing for the organization to realize:
..conclusive patient pathways,
in which the patients and their loved ones
can easily find their way through
so as to manage their processes easily,
creating efficiency to your processes too..
3 crucial principles:
1out of 3:
Integrated care: …

19. Align the different but conditional medical professions,
between physicians of different disciplines
to consult and support
and best design the therapy,
as well as between the necessary medical professions,
and of interventions they need to make too,
in such a way that every activity can be done by
the most equipped and less expensive profession
in good collaboration with all
3 crucial principles:
2 out of 3:
Multidisciplinary care: ..
your journey into digital/eHealth
step by step
allowing for the organization to develop

20. empower patients by new listening and focused attention
to learn about their own condition
and to track and report their experiences for you,
in order to build data insights
that will help your professionals help patients better,
gain new insights in the details of the condition,
and to build support to patients’ adherence and
self management
your journey into digital/eHealth
step by step
to develop the organization even further
3 crucial principles:
3 out of 3:
Participative care: ..

21. CHOOSEYOUR OWN BEST E-HEALTH INITIATIVE
OUT OFTHE MANY AVAILABLE EXAMPLES

22. that benefits both
medical
patients'
organizational and financial
criteria..

23. So you allow yourself to learn.
And so, wiser,
you can better design your
next move into the direction of
integrated, connected, mobile, tele-care,
better care with
better outcomes and lower costs

24. you could move with caution
to steps, that condition
a higher impact on your current routines and organization

25. and let all people involved
get enthusiastic about it,
driving you in their turn
to more bold next steps

26. let your staff and patients,
their families and loved ones,
but also your payers,
want to be involved to create even better …..

27. and co-create the future
of your proper medicine/health care
together

29. To learn together how innovation in eHealth
can be done the right way

30. This all is rather the principle
underlying our eHealth solutions for you,
specifically made to serve
your proper eHealth
development process

31. EHEALTH
THOUGHT LAB
“EHEALTH – HOW?”
A.R.J. ROB HALKES, MHA, DRS
RYAN MINAROVITCH, J.D.
GUNTER G. FUCHS, DR. HSC, MPH