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e- Governance: A Smarter Approach for imparting Health Awareness, Health Education and Patient Counseling in Community Pharmacy setting
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NARENDRA CHOTAI, DR. BHARAT G. PATEL, RUBY R. CHRISTIAN
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E governance approach is used to provide services online to the people at their door step. Many developed and developing countries have accepted the concept of e-Governance in various sectors to make working of government more efficient and transparent and health sector is not an exception. With the upcoming era of technology, the concept of e- health and m-health are becoming more wide spread. e-Health is creating electronic version of patient records across a national system while m-Health serves to provide remote information to healthcare providers using mobile and wireless devices to improve health outcomes, healthcare services and research. Information Communication Technology (ICT) plays a major role in m-health implementation and deployment. Role of community pharmacist in health care system is unprecedented. Right from health awareness to educating people regarding immunization, HIV, TB etc. role of community pharmacist is wholesome, but it lacks digital platform to showcase its potential in health system and to reach wide spread people. Digitalization is the need of the time and thus it is imperative to initiate e-community/ m-community pharmacy approach to promote healthcare of people in effective and efficient way by creating combo of ICT and expertise of community pharmacist. In nutshell the aim of this review is to create awareness and to ignite the thought process in the mind of budding pharmacist and thereby encourage them to take initiative in this direction. In this paper an attempt has been made to focus on present status of ICT/e-governance in health care and related aspects.
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e-Governance, Health Education, Community Pharmacist, ICT, m-Health
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