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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) operates as a decentralised scientific agency (as opposed to a regulatory authority) of the European Union (EU) and its main responsibility is the protection and promotion of public and animal health, through the evaluation and supervision of medicines for human and veterinary use. [8]
The central feature that makes any system a patient portal is the ability to expose individual patient health information in a secure manner through the Internet. In addition, virtually all patient portals allow patients to interact in some way with health care providers.
A 2011 study of European e-patients found that they tended to be "inquisitive and autonomous" and that they noted that the number of e-patients in Europe appeared to be rising. [13] A 2012 study found that e-patients uploading videos about their health experienced a loss of privacy, but also positive benefits from social support. [14]
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Providing patients with information is central to patient-centered health care and this has been shown to have some positive effects on health outcomes. [20] Providing patients with access to their health records including medical histories and test results via an electronic health record is a legal right in some parts of the world. [20]
Medscape is a professional portal for physicians and has training materials, a drug database, and clinical information on 30 medical specialty areas and more than 30 physician discussion boards. [14] WebMD Health Services provides private health management programs and benefit decision-support portals to employers and health plans.
The color fresco Care of The Sick by Domenico di Bartolo, 1441–1442, depicting the Santa Maria della Scala hospital in Siena, Italy. Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.
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