Q: Who is Healthanywhere?
A: Healthanywhere is an IgeaCare Systems
Company. We are committed to delivering breakthrough eHealth communications and
technology solutions to improve quality of life and healthcare outcomes for
consumers, patients and healthcare providers. From screening, diagnosis and
daily monitoring to treatment programs, and self-managed care, we engineer,
design and deliver real time state-of-the-art eHealth solutions. 
Q: What is Telehealth?
A: Telehealth is a generic term covering the
use of communications and information technology to deliver health and health
care services, information and education, where participants are physically
separated, potentially over great distances.
Telehealth can help to improve access by
overcoming barriers of geography, transportation infrastructure, or
socio-economic disparity. It can enable clinical consultation, continuing
professional education, health promotion, and healthcare management and
administration. Both broad and low bandwidth infrastructure and technology are
used in the provision of telehealth services.
Q: What is eHealth?
A: eHealth is a term often used
interchangeably with telehealth, but is more recently and narrowly defined as a
component of Healthcare practices which is supported by electronic processes and
communication technologies. Specifically, eHealth refers to processes relative
to the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR, EHR), Consumer Health Informatics
and Virtual Healthcare Teams.
Healthanywhere solutions embrace these
methodologies as a means to effectively manage one’s health condition by
connecting patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals who may each
reside, work and play in separate locations. For example, Healthanywhere’s
Health At Home platform allows users to capture and transmit health data, view
medical related educational content, answer pertinent questionnaires and
interact with their healthcare professionals and caregivers from the comfort and
security of their own home.
Q: What is mHealth?
A: mHealth is also presently a term being
used more frequently, denoting the specific use of mobile devices in collecting
aggregate and patient level health data and providing healthcare information to
practitioners, researchers, and patients. As communication technologies allow an
ever increasing ability to stay connected (online) while on the move, this has
allowed for the ability to continuously monitor in real-time patient vitals,
environmental conditions and other factors and facilitate the direct provision
of care over relatively high bandwidth networks.
Healthanywhere solutions leverage available
communication networks and mobile devices to improve the interaction and quality
of care between healthcare professionals and patients or individuals actively
engaged to manage their health. For example, Healthanywhere’s Health On The Go
platform uses Smartphone technologies to enable users to capture & transmit
health data, view medical related educational content, answer pertinent
questionnaires and interact with their healthcare professionals, while
maintaining a mobile and active lifestyle.
