Delivering health care to a growing world population and to communities in underserved areas is a major global health challenge. Over the last few decades, many approaches have been developed under various frameworks such as telemedicine, telehealth, eHealth, and mhealth. This chapter reviews the evolution of these networks for coordination of patient care and elder care. We discuss the challenges in the design, implementation and evaluation of these systems, and outline some opportunities and challenges for future development.

 

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1125.2961

 

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