eHealth: where next?

摘要

This issue of the BJGP focuses on eHealth and telecommunications, with four articles exploring the effectiveness and acceptability of a range of eHealth interventions, including: a smart phone app to improve physical activity,1 a tablet-based intervention to promote self-monitoring in people with COPD,2 the telehealth intervention used in the Whole System Demonstrator,3 and the use of phone-based triage to manage the demand for appointments in general practice.4 Such a focus is timely, as despite the demise of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), the number and range of eHealth solutions that primary care health professionals will encounter is growing.