eHealth: Redefining Health Care in the Light of Technology

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.