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Review
. 2021 Sep 10;9(9):1192.
doi: 10.3390/healthcare9091192.

E-Health Practices and Technologies: A Systematic Review from 2014 to 2019

Maria Helena da Fonseca  1 , Fanny Kovaleski  1 , Claudia Tania Picinin  1 , Bruno Pedroso  2 , Priscila Rubbo  3
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E-Health Practices and Technologies: A Systematic Review from 2014 to 2019

Maria Helena da Fonseca et al. Healthcare (Basel). .

Abstract

E-health can be defined as a set of technologies applied with the help of the internet, in which healthcare services are provided to improve quality of life and facilitate healthcare delivery. As there is a lack of similar studies on the topic, this analysis uses a systematic literature review of articles published from 2014 to 2019 to identify the most common e-health practices used worldwide, as well as the main services provided, diseases treated, and the associated technologies that assist in e-health practices. Some of the key results were the identification of the four most common practices used (mhealth or mobile health; telehealth or telemedicine; technology; and others) and the most widely used technologies associated with e-health (IoT, cloud computing, Big Data, security, and systems).

Keywords: e-health; ehealth; practices; technologies.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Research method.
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Number of publications per year.
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Distribution of articles by country and number of articles published by journal.
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Diseases treated with e-health.
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Number of publications in articles combining technology and e-health.
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