How can we offer better healthcare services via teleHealth and mHealth?

Telehealth enables patients to access health care services remotely and manage their health care.

It lately became a widely used service for medical and health expertise, the biggest advantage of this service being the liberty of use, regardless of the place we are. 

mHealth refers to medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants, and other wireless devices. mHealth became broadly used, especially by smart-phone users which are provided with a large number of apps focused on physical and mental wellness.

How can we improve the process of storing records – from medical expertise information to big data analytics?

This challenge is focusing on handling health and medical data, processes which ensure safe, secure and organized information.

An electronic health record (EHR) is a digital version of a patient’s paper chart. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users. From electronic health records to patient-reported outcomes, data piles up and can feel overwhelming without the tools and resources to make sense of it. Thus, big data analytics are used for processing this information.

How can we respond to the necessity of human resources in health and encourage good-practices of health professions in virtual environments?

Beside the digitalization and automatization of the current world, human input is still necessary, even more in the health area where expertise and empathy are mandatory for good practice. Same digitalization of the modern word has given birth to a new concept: eProfessionalism.

eProfessionalism refers to the dynamic of online interaction of a professionist, translated through the attitude, actions, and professional code of conduct.

How can we facilitate the learning process through digital resources and how correctly use the information users are interacting with?

This challenge is discussing the social media and eLearning as individual concepts in health and how these are interacting. Social media is the most vast virtual universe, which provides direct information from the user, here including health professionals. Unfortunately, information cannot always be validated before publication, thus social media can become a source of misinformation.

However, social media can also be a great source of learning for users. The access to information on various virtual environments has offered infinite possibilities of learning, this concept being called “eLearning”. For most professions, keeping up to date with the latest developments and retraining yourself to the newest technologies is a matter of staying relevant, and eLearning is enabling this for medical professionals also.