e-Health trends

The use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to support the achievement of health outcomes has the potential to transform the manner in which health services are delivered. Although there is an increasing number of contributions in e-health research, knowledge in this area remains limited. In thi s chapter, we discuss current trends in pervasive e-heahh with the hope that this endeavor will assist e-heal th scholars channel their research efforts. Having extensively reviewed extant research, we focus on health education, electronic health records (EHR), standardization, and Ill-health.