E-Health Implementation Challenges: A Comprehensive Review of Digital Healthcare in the United States

Abstract

Interactions in the past involving healthcare have been carried out through conventional in-person methods. Due to modern issues and the growth of technology, the health sector has expanded to involve digital practices of healthcare, or e-health. E-health can be classified into several distinct subsidiaries (such as telehealth or electronic health records) serving as a potential solution to providing quality services around the world. Despite this, e-health comes with many challenges which can act as barriers of implementation and investment, which stifle its mass adoption which is so desperately needed, especially following the digital health growth resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we cover major challenges which come as a part of e-health investment and implementation worldwide, and how they have staggered or boosted the pursuit of more effective and efficient digital health practices. Centering our research focus on a specific region, in this case, the United States, makes real world setting statistics and investigations deeply addressed. In order to make the understanding of digital health artifacts in the United States easier, this article is a result of data collected from different sources that also mention other countries as well. We analyzed the global importance and effectiveness of e-health to later approach the challenges faced by the United States and give plausible initiatives to deal with such issues. Identifying this gap in the research of such a large and developing industry such as e-health is crucial to securing its future success in execution and adoption.