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.
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Chiasson, M.W., Flynn, D., Kaplan, B., Lehoux, P., LeRouge, C. (2008). eHealth: Redefining Health Care in the Light of Technology. In: Barrett, M., Davidson, E., Middleton, C., DeGross, J.I. (eds) Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 267. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_28
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