Open AccessMhealth
Author(s) -
Jeannette Herrle
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
canadian journal of optometry/cjo. canadian journal of optometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2562-1505
pISSN - 0834-2245
DOI - 10.15353/cjo.80.261
Subject(s) - internet privacy , mhealth , patient portal , health care , digital health , world wide web , business , computer science , political science , law
Web-based applications (email, websites, portals) have long been the favoured digital modality for interacting with the public in health care, in part because they enable institutional control of the flow of health data. But today, smartphones are becoming the default portal in many people’s daily lives. Their presence is increasingly felt in health care, whether as a means of connecting patients with practitioners or satisfying a desire for instant access to health information.