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Development Strategy of E-health in China

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As a new health care model, E-health represents the future of health care development. But there are a lot of problems during the process of construction and popularization in China. In this paper, we focus on the complex problems in the course of E-health development, develop a soft system methodology to analyze and construct models, and finally propose solutions to e-health development.

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Guo, X., Zhang, X., Li, C. (2013). Development Strategy of E-health in China. In: Chuan, P., Khachidze, V., Lai, I., Liu, Y., Siddiqui, S., Wang, T. (eds) Innovation in the High-Tech Economy. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41585-2_1

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