eHealth: Redefining Health Care in the Light of Technology

Submitted by Super Admin on Wed, 2009-07-15 17:38

Publication Type:

IFIP Paper

Authors:

Chiasson, Mike; Flynn, Donal; Bonnie Kaplan; Lehoux, Pascale; LeRouge, Cynthia

Source:

Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century, p.357 - 362 (2008)

URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_28

Abstract:

Information and communication technology is now the major enabler for healthcare organizations on many levels— national, regional and local—hoping to achieve structural and cultural change in healthcare provision; for example, the UK’s NPfIT (National Program for IT) and the National Health Information Initiative in the United States. Final NPfIT costs are variously estimated from £12billion to £31 billion. Major initiatives are also underway in other developed as well as developing economies to address healthcare issues with eHealth technologies.