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The advent of consumer and industry-standard technology has brought dramatic changes over the last 25 years, with these technologies becoming rapidly more common place throughout interactions in our day-to-day lives. The ubiquitous nature of these devices, transactions and services mean that it is quite possible to be dealing with technology without even realising it. These technologies aim to speed up our daily interactions and ensure that delays, inefficiencies and poor service can become a thing of the past.

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  1. Clinical Technology Centre, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland UK

    Scott G. Cunningham

  2. Medical Education Institute/Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland UK

    Deborah J. Wake

  3. School of Computing, University of Dundee, Perth Road, Dundee, Scotland UK

    Annalu Waller

  4. Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland UK

    Andrew D. Morris

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  2. CERN, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Fabio Capello

  3. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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Cunningham, S.G., Wake, D.J., Waller, A., Morris, A.D. (2014). Definitions of eHealth. In: Gaddi, A., Capello, F., Manca, M. (eds) eHealth, Care and Quality of Life. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5253-6_2

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