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eHealth Cost-Effectiveness

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Cost-effectiveness analysis; eHealth cost-benefit analysis; eHealth economic evaluation; Internet based intervention cost analysis; Online intervention cost-effectiveness; Telehealth cost-effectiveness

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eHealth cost-effectiveness deals with evaluating and improving healthcare system spending through the use of information and communication technologies that support or deliver healthcare. This can be achieved by utilizing eHealth programs that are economical in regards to the tangible benefits produced by the amount of money spent.

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Since the rapid growth of the Internet throughout the 1990s, researchers and clinicians have praised the potential of eHealth tools and programs to not only increase access to care, but also to improve and increase the cost-effectiveness of healthcare. As eHealth tools and programs continue to grow in number and reach, there is a need to evaluate their cost-effectiveness to determine if they are in fact economically useful....

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  1. Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Emily Lattie & Lauren Brenner

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  1. Emily Lattie
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  2. Lauren Brenner
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Correspondence to Emily Lattie .

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  1. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    Marc Gellman

  2. Campbell University School of Pharmacy, Buies Creek, North Carolina, USA

    J. Rick Turner

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  1. Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Emily Lattie

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Lattie, E., Brenner, L. (2018). eHealth Cost-Effectiveness. In: Gellman, M., Turner, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_101957-1

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