Abstract
Information Technology (IT) is now so integral to healthcare delivery that it has been suggested that the “e” in eHealth is redundant and should be dropped (Ebels, 2012). In the healthcare sector, both patients and physicians are facing a rapidly changing and challenging environment, due to the increased use of eHealth tools. General practitioners were the first to embrace office-based computers around 40 years ago; at that time the development of eHealth in primary care was bogged down by several issues. They included cost, the variety of systems available and the difficulties in migrating from paper-based records with a familiar format to electronic ones with different structures. Some of these problems persist. However, a bigger challenge today is the integration of data generated in one component of healthcare delivery into the wider healthcare IT system, so that, in terms of providing good patient care, a more seamless record can be shared across all three fields of primary, secondary and social care.
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Beger, B., Wilks, M. (2014). Physicians’ Perspectives on eHealth. In: Rosenmöller, M., Whitehouse, D., Wilson, P. (eds) Managing eHealth. The Palgrave Macmillan IESE Business Collection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379443_7
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