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eHealth, digital health, or "internet medicine," emerge along with the Internet.

1999

The Story of Rural Health
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"eHealth" begins to be used as a broadly-defined term referring to anything focused on the Internet and medicine. It includes the use of electronic health records, electronic prescriptions, telemedicine, online access to medical research and medical information, and more.

This period marks a significant shift in how healthcare is shared and experienced, and will have a grave impact on underfunded hospitals, especially in rural areas, that don't have the financial support to expand their telemedicine systems. It will also raise concerns about health surveillance and the digitization of health records.