eHealth Applications: A Comprehensive Approach

eHealth is an enhancement of healthcare with technological advancements and information processing. As new technologies arose, such as advanced smartphones and electronic wearable devices which helps to measure various health parameters, the term mHealth was coined. mHealth is a sub category of eHealth in which the smartphones and IoT devices aid in healthcare. The role of information technology in the medical field has seen increased importance in the recent years thereby evolving in to the field of telemedicine. This helped in establishing communication between a patient and a doctor remotely and enabled them to transmit information in the form of multimedia. There are many existing telemedicine applications which are capable of storing are processing medical data and using them for prescriptions, consultation and other services. This paper compares the existing approaches and propose a comprehensive approach in the field of eHealth.