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E-health and Care Management

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 7638

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Patrizia Belfiore

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Department of Movement and Wellness Sciences, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy
Interests: health innovation; public health; social marketing; sport management
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Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Vito

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Department of Motor Sciences and Welfare, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Via Ammiraglio Ferdinando Acton, 38, 80133 Napoli NA, Italy
Interests: sport management; health innovation; marketing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

eHealth includes the technological tools involved in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a disease, as well as the patient’s management. These strategies improve the quality of healthcare provided, and they are becoming increasingly important because of the growing number of the international circulation of citizens and number of patients. eHealth initiatives, therefore, improve healthcare and sustainability, pointing out the patient and their positive outcomes. 

The sociodemographic evolution of the population, as well as the need to balance the available resources and the quality of the healthcare provided, are an incentive to define new ways of providing health services. This aim can be achieved through an integrated system of services able to monitor parameters such as clinical risk and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The creation of an integrated service system assumes considerable importance, since the concept of healthcare is also evolving. In this context, the application of new technologies provides a valid opportunity to better balance the need for a higher quality of performance and prudent use of available resources.  

These actions are fundamental to create the conditions for the realization of an eHealth Information Strategy at the country system level that has a unitary direction. The strategy’s primary commitment is to ensure a harmonious, coherent, and sustainable development of information systems in the area with increasing levels of interoperability. 

This Special Issue aims to showcase the variety and relevance of recent advances and developments in the field of health innovation and eHealth. 

We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions as well as review articles, and the submission of research work by interdisciplinary teams and international groups is of significant interest.

Dr. Patrizia Belfiore
Prof. Giuseppe Vito
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • eHealth
  • health innovation
  • technology
  • social media

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HealthyBlock: Blockchain-Based IT Architecture for Electronic Medical Records Resilient to Connectivity Failures
by Omar Gutiérrez, Giordy Romero, Luis Pérez, Augusto Salazar, Marina Charris and Pedro Wightman
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(19), 7132; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph17197132 - 29 Sep 2020
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The current information systems for the registration and control of electronic medical records (EMR) present a series of problems in terms of the fragmentation, security, and privacy of medical information, since each health institution, laboratory, doctor, etc. has its own database and manages [...] Read more.
The current information systems for the registration and control of electronic medical records (EMR) present a series of problems in terms of the fragmentation, security, and privacy of medical information, since each health institution, laboratory, doctor, etc. has its own database and manages its own information, without the intervention of patients. This situation does not favor effective treatment and prevention of diseases for the population, due to potential information loss, misinformation, or data leaks related to a patient, which in turn may imply a direct risk for the individual and high public health costs for governments. One of the proposed solutions to this problem has been the creation of electronic medical record (EMR) systems using blockchain networks; however, most of them do not take into account the occurrence of connectivity failures, such as those found in various developing countries, which can lead to failures in the integrity of the system data. To address these problems, HealthyBlock is presented in this paper as an architecture based on blockchain networks, which proposes a unified electronic medical record system that considers different clinical providers, with resilience in data integrity during connectivity failure and with usability, security, and privacy characteristics. On the basis of the HealthyBlock architecture, a prototype was implemented for the care of patients in a network of hospitals. The results of the evaluation showed high efficiency in keeping the EMRs of patients unified, updated, and secure, regardless of the network clinical provider they consult. Full article
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Exploring the Social Networks’ Use in the Health-Care Industry: A Multi-Level Analysis
by Tommasina Pianese and Patrizia Belfiore
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(14), 7295; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph18147295 - 08 Jul 2021
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The application of social networks in the health domain has become increasingly prevalent. They are web-based technologies which bring together a group of people and health-care providers having in common health-related interests, who share text, image, video and audio contents and interact with [...] Read more.
The application of social networks in the health domain has become increasingly prevalent. They are web-based technologies which bring together a group of people and health-care providers having in common health-related interests, who share text, image, video and audio contents and interact with each other. This explains the increasing amount of attention paid to this topic by researchers who have investigated a variety of issues dealing with the specific applications in the health-care industry. The aim of this study is to systematize this fragmented body of literature, and provide a comprehensive and multi-level overview of the studies that has been carried out to date on social network uses in healthcare, taking into account the great level of diversity that characterizes this industry. To this end, we conduct a scoping review enabling to identify the major research streams, whose aggregate knowledge are discussed according to three levels of analysis that reflect the viewpoints of the major actors using social networks for health-care purposes, i.e., governments, health-care providers (including health-care organizations and professionals) and social networks’ users (including ill patients and general public). We conclude by proposing directions for future research. Full article
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