Development of an E-mental Health Infrastructure for Supporting Interoperability and Data Analysis

Abstract

Digital technology plays an increasingly important role in addressing the challenges faced by health and care services such as rising costs, changing demographics, shortage of healthcare professionals. eHealth is the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for healthcare systems which helps patients and healthcare providers work together to ensure faster, safer and better care. eHealth strengthen the use of ICT in health development through a range of services or systems including electronic health record, clinical decision support system, health informatics, self-monitoring healthcare devices, personalized medicine. This paper presents an eHealth infrastructure for E-mental health which is under development. The infrastructure is being designed to provide internet based interventions and support for interoperability and data analysis.