A Seminar about \ E- Health

The rapid advance of computer and media technologies is providing new opportunities for health communication. Whereas traditional health communication efforts have tended to be interpersonal (e.g., face-to-face counseling) or mediated by traditional media (e.g., print, radio, television), health communication efforts based on technology applications such as Internet websites and mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular. The collective term that represents this emerging, interdisciplinary field is eHealth, which is defined as “The use of emerging information and communication technology, especially the Internet, to improve or enable health and health care” . This field covers topics from consumers searching the Internet for health information, to practitioners using social media to enhance their outreach efforts, to 

researchers developing and evaluating eHealth applications to improve health.