Editorial: eHealth is health care transformation, not “an IT project”

Today, few would argue, and even fewer would be unaware, of the importance and growing impact of computing, networking and communications (CNC) on our everyday living – including wireless or mobile technologies and sensor technologies. Even though this is most evident in the commercial services sectors, it has also become evident in socioeconomic sectors such as health. The term “eHealth” (or sometimes “eHealth support”) is used generically to mean “the uses of CNC support in medical and health care”, and is frequently preferred over what are presently viewed as the limited terms of “health informatics” and “health telematics”.