Keynote for the Australian 10th Annual Health Care Congress ( http://www.webcitation.org/5Vlz9j0HO ) in Sydney, 27th - 29th February 2008. Keynote contains a run-down of what ehealth is all about, and then focusses a fair bit on Personal Health Records (PHR 2.0) and Personal Health Applications. This is partly because the new Australian government under its new prime minister Kevin Rudd has set a couple of priorities for reforming health care, among them is "focussing on preventative health care and health promotion to help keep Australians healthy and out of hospital", which is a goal that can - in my opinion - be attained or at least greatly supported with Personal Health Records, or more specifically with what I call second generation PHRs or PHR 2.0. Contains screenshots of our Healthbook (TM) project, which was subsequently mentioned mentioned in the preliminary report of the 2020 Summit to the Prime Minister in Australia, see http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/search/label/healthbook
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Eysenbach: eHealth: Transforming the dynamics of a complex health system
1. Associate Professor Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist , Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research; Toronto General Research Institute of the UHN, Toronto General Hospital, Canada eHealth Transforming the dynamics of a complex health system (from a sickness model to a wellness model) Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH
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20. „ e-Health (...) refers to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet or Internet-related technologies. In a broader sense, the term characterizes not only a technical development, but also a state-of-mind, a way of thinking, an attitude, a commitment for networked, global thinking, to improve health (care) worldwide by using information and communication technology .“ What is e-health? G. Eysenbach. What is eHealth? J Med Internet Res 2001; 3(2):e20 http://www.jmir.org/2001/2/e20
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84. Thank you! Dr Gunther Eysenbach, Email: geysenba@uhnres.utoronto.ca, Associate Professor Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist , Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research; Toronto General Research Institute of the UHN, Toronto General Hospital, Canada
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Thanks for the kind introduction. I'll try to live up to it. As you know I am mainly an ehealth researcher and have never written anything on complexity issues, change management etc, which are all important aspects in transforming the dynamics of the health system. Still, I may have something to contribute, as I think ehealth is and will be a key element in transforming any health system into a sustainable, prevention-oriented system. Thank you for that kind introduction and thank you to the organizers for the invitation to be here, it's a pleasure to be in Australia. What a pleasure to be with you here this morning. I already followed some very interesting discussions over the past 2 days at this congress and I am particularly intrigued by the your efforts in transforming the health care system from a sickness system to a wellness system (as your chair John Menadue so eloquently put it). My talk is about ehealth, and about the role ehealth can play in transforming a health care system into a sustainable, consumer-centric prevention-oriented system through empowering consumers to take more responsibility for their health. . Every time I return to Sydney I am overwhelmed by the physical beauty of this city and the phantastic wheather… My pet issue is ehealth and public health, and in the next few minutes I will show you and hopefully inspire you to develop policies and ehealth applications that support this transformation. Recurring themes in my presentation: ehealth: a more effective health care system, enables consumer empowerment and involvement, supporting prevention (EFF-EMP-PREV),, and ehealth, and my thesis here is that ehealth is more than electronic health records and medical informatics, and has a crucial role to play in transforming the health care system to a more patient/consumer centric system, where preventive medicine is part of the system.