ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at characteristics and issues that cut right across the individual digital health platforms and makes comparisons between them. The digital health consumer has a choice so it is important to look at the relative merits of the platforms. Kiosks are single information source points that potential users have to seek out or come across in their travels in order to use them. Kiosk information services generally comprise text and images only. A DiTV information service is a multi-channel or multi-modality service environment provided under a single umbrella organisation to which the user subscribes to receive the service. Each information service offers a text and image or a video service accessible via the television screen. The architecture for DiTV and the web is similar in that a server is used to store pages, images etc. and clients or users make requests for information, which are interpreted by the server.
