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Institute for eGovernment

Creating E-Health programmes in order to ensure lasting viability for initiatives to reflect its local conditions

Faced with new challenges such as rising costs, more-complex services, and growing populations, the healthcare industry is increasingly turning to e-health initiatives to create efficiencies and share information more effectively. To date, however, many of those initiatives have failed to deliver their expected benefits. A key reason for these failures is a widespread misconception about what an e-health programme requires for long-term success.

Weiterlesen: The anatomy of E-Health ecosystem

Health First Europe (HFE) Honorary President John Bowis announced HFE´s key tenets for e-Health petitioning policymakers to adopt the policy recommendations in order to foster increased access to medical technologies for patients. Speaking at the Hungarian Presidency Ministerial e-Health conference in Budapest, Hungary, Mr. Bowis revealed the key principles which include e-Independence, e-Workforce, e-Value, e-Accessibility and e-Transparency and incorporate each health constituency perspective - patients, healthcare professionals and industry. The recommendations provide prescriptive, concrete measures for expanding the uptake and use of e-Health technologies for citiziens throughout the EU.

Weiterlesen: John Bowis of Health First Europe unveil 5 key e-Health principles for policymakers

The healthcare IT sector is on a roll but the market's fast demand and growth is hindered by a lack of talent skilled with both clinical and IT know-how, note industry players, who add that clinical analysis, interface management and electronic medical records are some of the most sought-after skills in the industry.

Healthcare IT, in recent years, has grown to become one of the fastest-growing niches in the industry, Chong Yoke Sin, CEO at Integrated Health Information Systems (IHIS), told ZDNet Asia. IHIS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore's Ministry of Health Holdings (MOHH) and oversees the IT resources of all healthcare institutions under the MOHH, which includes SingHealth and National Healthcare Group.

Weiterlesen: Healthcare IT booming but faces talent drought

Mobile and internet technology is becoming essential in meeting the rising demand for medical services

A truly amazing transformation has taken place in the first decade of the 21st Century – the power of communicating with the world has been put into the hands (literally) of the great majority of people on this planet.

Statistics from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) show that in 2000, there were about 500 million subscriptions to mobile phones worldwide. Now, at the start of 2011, there are some 5.5 billion, and the number is rising fast in developing countries in particular. Almost one billion mobile subscribers use 3G mobile services, and altogether there are more than two billion users of the internet by fixed and mobile means.

Weiterlesen: An e-health lifestyle