Abstract:

The term eHealth is widely used by many individuals, academic institutions, professional bodies, and funding organizations. It has become an accepted neologism despite the lack of an agreed-upon clear or precise definition. This paper examines the field of eHealth holds promise for supporting and enabling health behavior change and the prevention and management of the chronic disease. To establish areas of congruence among contributors to the early development, evaluation, and dissemination of eHealth applications. The use of normalization process theory as a conceptual framework revealed that relatively little attention was paid to (1) work directed at making sense of e-health systems, specifying their purposes and benefits, establishing their value to users, and planning their implementation; (2) factors promoting or inhibiting engagement and participation; (3) effects on roles and responsibilities; (4) risk management, and (5) ways in which implementation processes might be reconfigured by user-produced knowledge.