A Perception Study on e-Health and Its Application among Healthcare Professionals in a Tertiary care Hospital

Abstract

Background:E-Health promises to be a cost-effective and efficient way of providing healthcare at an affordable cost to patients who would otherwise be excluded or underserviced. However, e-Health changes the nature of the healthcare professional-patient relationship, in informed consent requirements and in the apportionment of liability are implicated. Privacy concerns also arise and the position of health informatics professionals as well as of service providers is also affected. A further complicating factor is outsourcing.

Choice of solution: Developed a structural questionnaire that identify the utilization and usefulness status on electronic health (e-Health) for improving the healthcare delivery system.

Objectives:

1. To assess the utilization status of electronic health (e-health) in tertiary care hospital.


2. To measure the usefulness of e-health in delivering quality healthcare.


3. To find out the challenges cum barriers in implementing e-healthservices.

Implementation: Conducted a quality improvement survey at a tertiary care hospital by using questionnaire and studied the importance of e-Health among the healthcare professionals. The study included 100 healthcare professionals from tertiary care hospital.

Evaluation: Study revealed that 86% of the respondents are agreed to learn and to practice e- Health where as 14% of the respondents were not interested learn about e-Health system and found difficult to implement in the hospitals