What is e-health (4) : a scoping exercise to map the field

Lack of consensus on the meaning of e-health has led to uncertainty among academics, policymakers, providers and consumers. This project was commissioned in light of the rising profile of the topic on the international policy agenda and the emerging UK National Programme for Information Technology (now called Connecting for Health) and related developments in the UK National Health Service. It examined multiple databases of abstracts to identify published definitions of the concept