EHealth Projects Challenges from Policy Making to Adoption
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Abstract
Progressively, the use of the Internet and the applications linked with ICT in the health sector, represent more of a revolution than an evolution. eHealth refers to the use of modern information and communication technologies to meet needs of citizens, patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, as well as policy makers, in both private and public sector worldwide, and government, for the transformation of health conditions, particularly for those living in rural and remote areas.
The ubiquity of interactive communications and networks of producers, suppliers, customers, and clients has made possible novel applications oriented to the functional interconnection of professionals and the integration of health care processes. These applications can achieve the efficient delivery of information and services, including remote monitoring and direct care, and endeavor to provide a response to many health sector needs.
eHealth now prioritizes health information that circulates through an indefinite number of flows and is stored at numerous places for multiple purposes. This information can be used to enhance both private and public healthcare systems, in terms of their quality, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and control of social security expenses. Furthermore, national borders are becoming no longer significant at a moment in time when the Internet can offer all required services at a global level.
So, new issues are becoming crucial in this still evolving context. Depending on what area of eHealth, there are numerous projects and up-and-running services in all countries, particularly in developing countries, which face many challenges at the international, national and local levels, regarding strategies, policy making, governance and so forth. It is shown that there is a clear need for guidance on an approach which holds the most promise for success of any eHealth project.
This paper, offers an integrated overview of the current and emerging challenges of eHealth projects, which is fundamentally necessary among all the actors in this promising, but at times also distressing, eHealth new world.
Keywords: eHealth, challenges, project, policy making, international
The ubiquity of interactive communications and networks of producers, suppliers, customers, and clients has made possible novel applications oriented to the functional interconnection of professionals and the integration of health care processes. These applications can achieve the efficient delivery of information and services, including remote monitoring and direct care, and endeavor to provide a response to many health sector needs.
eHealth now prioritizes health information that circulates through an indefinite number of flows and is stored at numerous places for multiple purposes. This information can be used to enhance both private and public healthcare systems, in terms of their quality, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and control of social security expenses. Furthermore, national borders are becoming no longer significant at a moment in time when the Internet can offer all required services at a global level.
So, new issues are becoming crucial in this still evolving context. Depending on what area of eHealth, there are numerous projects and up-and-running services in all countries, particularly in developing countries, which face many challenges at the international, national and local levels, regarding strategies, policy making, governance and so forth. It is shown that there is a clear need for guidance on an approach which holds the most promise for success of any eHealth project.
This paper, offers an integrated overview of the current and emerging challenges of eHealth projects, which is fundamentally necessary among all the actors in this promising, but at times also distressing, eHealth new world.
Keywords: eHealth, challenges, project, policy making, international
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