eHealth Applications in Knowledge Landscapes

This chapter provides an overview of eHealth applications in knowledge landscapes with a brief historical outline and, in pointing out on key factors and values, shows which systems are used for what purpose. The question of how person-centred applications to health-related knowledge affect the way applications are used is crucial, as it has consequences for the forming of knowledge landscapes on an international level. eHealth applications should be considered as socio-(bio-)technical systems. Therefore, it is not only social factors that shape a specific knowledge landscape, but technical possibilities, too, shape the personal (biological) properties and social factors, making responsibility a value to be reflected within the subject matter. To fulfil the objective of this chapter, I list eHealth applications and their implementations in addition to addressing eHealth country profiles with special focus on a case study in Turkey. I further compare formal eHealth interventions with patients’ attempts to build their own frameworks for a personal intervention or management of their condition.