Implications of e-Health and e-Health Program Evaluation

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IntroductionThe e-health has become a key contributor to health care industry, from researching personal health issues to asking a doctor for advice.

At present, there is a lot of internet websites that can utilized in order to gain health related information. Everything from researching as well as placing orders for prescription medications, to learning regarding disease, or even having a conversation online with trained medical doctors can be now done by the internet.

The method of delivering health care has altered dramatically because of building of hospitals, developments in the field of surgery, and the improvement in the internet. In the past 10 years there has been a major shift in the Health Care industry due to the rise of internet health care services (Barnes etal 2003).

Before the internet, if health problems were to arise in an individual, he/she was generally taken care of in the doctor's office or by home remedies.

If any questions were to arise about the health of yourself or others, the expertise of a doctor or nurse was generally needed.

WebMDThe WebMD health website is a website that has been designed to answer the questions about anything from medications to illnesses and can easily be obtained in a matter of seconds. Also, being able to communicate with the doctors or order prescriptions online has proved to be a huge advantage. In the next few paragraphs, the advantages of WebMD services and its impact on the health care industry will be discussed.

Researching Medications OnlineWebMD has been a huge advantage to the health care industry for many reasons, one being the use of the WebMD to research medications. WebMD that contain information on any thing from medications and their uses to finding out about diseases and their causes. Everything about a drug is...