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The changing balance of demand and supply within health care is a recurring theme in the analysis of the impact of information technology on society. Changes in demography such as the increasing elderly population, advances in medicine and technology and increased expectations of consumers as partners in their health care delivery systems all contribute to the ever widening gap between the needs and wants of individuals for health care and the level of service that can be delivered. Moreover, changes in the social structure of societies, for example, full time career mothers, have implications for the location, timing and environment of health care delivery.
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King, W. (1991). Working Group Paper Four. In: Marr, P.B., Axford, R.L., Newbold, S.K. (eds) Nursing Informatics ′91. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46746-2_8
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