E-Health Care Services: An Empirical Evidence From Health Care Sector In Tamil Nadu
Abstract
E-health is generally seen as a strategic tool for overcoming the challenges faced by health-care sectors worldwide. E-health services include everything from very basic health information services to the more advanced interactive services. The most common e health services and applications discussed are electronic prescriptions, telemedical applications (such as teleconsultation and telemonitoring), evidence-based medicine, electronically supported administrative functions, electronic patient records, specialist-oriented and patient-oriented information provision, virtual health teams and other services connecting stakeholders in health care as well as distance learning and provider education. The main objective of the study is to
examine the demographical profile of the respondents and to test the E- health care services factors based on gender. For selecting respondents non-Probability, convenience sampling method is employed. A sample of 445 respondents are taken in to consideration for to collect data. The demographic factors are analysed using simple percentage analysis and MANOVA is used to examine the effects of gender as independent variable and E- health care services factors as dependent variables. Based on the analysis major finding will be found out and by giving suitable suggestion as Create awareness by giving advertisement and by build trust among the patients by way of appearing doctor celebrities and patient celebrities in the advertisement copy. To fully realize the potential of e-health services, continuous advancements in technology, better regulations, and customer-centric approaches are essential. By giving awareness, building trust, attitude and by providing user friendly services can create more customers (patients) of using e-health care services.
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