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A Manifesto for E-Health Success
International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation, 2000
While healthcare is the biggest service industry on the globe it has yet to realize the full potential of ehealth, which is in stark contrast to other e-business initiatives such as e-government and eeducation, e-finance or e-commerce. This is due to many reasons including the fact that the healthcare industry is faced with many complex challenges in trying to deliver cost-effective, highvalue, accessible healthcare and has traditionally been slow to embrace new business techniques and technologies. The goal of this paper is to develop a framework to assess a country's e-health preparedness with respect to embracing e-health (the application of e-commerce to healthcare) and thus enable a country to identify as well as address areas that require further attention in order for it to undertake a successful e-health initiative.
A framework for assessing e-health preparedness
International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 2005
While healthcare is the biggest service industry on the globe it has yet to realize the full potential of the e-business revolution in the form of e-health. This is due to many reasons including the fact that the healthcare industry is faced with many complex challenges in trying to deliver cost-effective, high-value, accessible healthcare and has traditionally been slow to embrace new business techniques and technologies. Given that e-health to a great extent is a macro level concern that has far reaching micro level implications, this paper firstly develops a framework to assess a country's preparedness with respect to embracing e-health (the application of e-commerce to healthcare) and from this an e-health preparedness grid to facilitate the assessment of any e-health initiative. Taken together the integrative framework and preparedness grid provide useful and necessary tools to enable successful e-health initiatives to ensue by helping country and/or organization within a country to identify and thus address areas that require further attention in order for it to undertake a successful e-health initiative.
Identifying Critical Issues for Developing Successful e-Health Solutions
Lean Thinking for Healthcare, 2013
As an industry, healthcare exhibits numerous contradictions, most notably with regard to its embracement of technology. On one hand, medical science is at the cutting edge with technology playing a key role in new techniques in oncology and cardiology as well as advances in various aspects of biomedical engineering. In contrast, healthcare delivery is a noted laggard with regard to its incorporation of technology. Current challenges which are impacting all members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries (including longer life expectancy, ageing population and technological changes) continue to exponentially affect rising health expenditures. Reducing these expenditures as well as offering effective and efficient quality healthcare treatment has now become a key priority on all healthcare agendas. Technology and automation in general have the potential to reduce these costs; hence, OECD countries are now looking at how to use information and communication technologies (ICT) in general and e-health solutions in particular to address these challenges and thereby enable superior healthcare delivery. The following presents the key points and initial findings from an exploratory research in progress that is focussed on uncovering critical issues for developing successful e-health solutions in two OECD countries: Australia and Germany.
The Competitive Forces Facing E-Health
International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, 2006
Superior access, quality and value of healthcare services has become a national priority for healthcare to combat the exponentially increasing costs of healthcare expenditure. E-Health in its many forms and possibilities appears to offer a panacea for facilitating the necessary transformation for healthcare. While a plethora of e-health initiatives keep mushrooming both nationally and globally, there exists to date no unified system to evaluate these respective initiatives and assess their relative strengths and deficiencies in realizing superior access, quality and value of healthcare services. Our research serves to address this void. This is done by focusing on the following three key components: 1) understanding the web of players (regulators, payers, providers, healthcare organizations, suppliers and last but not least patients) and how e-health can modify the interactions between these players as well as create added value healthcare services. 2) understand the competitive forces facing e-health organizations and the role of the Internet in modifying these forces, and 3) from analyzing the web of players combined with the competitive forces for e-health organizations we develop a framework that serves to identify the key forces facing an e-health and suggestions of how such an organization can structure itself to be e-health prepared.
Technological and Social Perspectives, 2010
The last two decades were characterized by a huge development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) particularly web technologies. This fact caused the most accelerated and
2014
Electronic health (e-health) refers to the delivery of health care with supporting from various data and correspondence technologies, for example, electronic health records, e-medicine, clinical decision help, and computerized provider order entry. E-health is considered by government, providers, and payers as an issue method of enhancing quality, safety, and expenses associated with the delivery of health care. Despite the fact that currently on a pedestal, e-health has not been readily adopted by a dominant part of health care providers. To achieve greater appropriation and use of technology in health care, the health care group needs a guide, or model for reception, that can be used to develop a business case to lower hazard for providers who receive and use technology in clinical practice. The goal of this article is to highlight the key factors to establish e-health system. Also this paper advocates for (1) greater dissemination of implementation best practices, (2) continued development of a solid e-health workforce, and (3) sustainable resources to help those seeking to embrace and use e-health technologies in clinical practice. The e-health group is invited to advance the guide to help providers in embracing and using data and correspondence technologies for health care system improvements.
E-commerce in healthcare: Changing the traditional landscape
The healthcare industry, with more than one trillion dollars in revenue, accounts for about one-seventh of the U.S. economy. A significant portion of this revenue is lost to escalating healthcare system costs. This article examines the shortcomings of the traditional healthcare delivery system in terms of information flow, communication standards, case collections, and IT spending. It makes the case that e-commerce has the ability to transact some healthcare business more efficiently and cost-effectively. With the Internet as a delivery platform, several models offer improvement over the status quo.
Business Models for e-Health: Evidence from Ten Case Studies
An increasingly aging population and spiraling healthcare costs have made the search for financially viable healthcare models an imperative of this century. The careful and creative application of information technology can play a significant role in meeting that challenge. Valuable lessons can be learned from an analysis of ten innovative telemedicine and e-health initiatives. Having proven their effectiveness in addressing a variety of medical needs, they have progressed beyond small-scale implementations to become an established part of healthcare delivery systems around the world.
Analysis of Success Drivers of E-Health Infrastructure and Use: A National Level Study
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY, 2013
e-Health, in form of websites that contain information on health, is emerging as an important resource for common people in some developed nations. The purpose of the study is to explore the critical factors that drive the e-Health infrastructure of nations and its usage. Research data from a set of more than 40 developed and developing nations were gathered from 8,000 websites to allow analysis of factors driving the e-Health growth. The results suggest that at a national level, cost of health care per capita and perception of health are significant in e-Health infrastructure regression, explaining more than 32-41% of the variability in e-Health infrastructure. Confidence in health care systems, perception of good health, health care costs, and human development index and health infrastructure also explain over 69-78% of the variability in e-Health use.
Leveraging E-health for Future-oriented Healthcare Systems in Developing Countries
Health IT has become a driving force for health institutions to offer high-quality diagnoses and to provide solutions designed to assist medical personnel; to share information and decisions as has seen the improvement of patients’ healthcare. The integration of IT in healthcare and the implementation of electronic health (e-health) systems have however been seen successful in those health institutions of developed countries but still challenged in developing nations. Many factors have been suggested to attribute to these challenges but most of overall is the readiness of these health institutions. This implies that health institutions in developing countries need to carryout e-health readiness assessment prior to its implementation. The major objective of this study was to report on the e-health readiness assessment model contextualized to developing countries. The study employed the analytical hierarchical process (AHP) to validate the data that was collected from health institutions of rural Northwest South Africa. Results indicated that core readiness is the most essential element for e-health readiness. The designed model will be used theoretically in the investigation of new ways of implementing e-health in developing countries. Practically, the model will be used to assist healthcare decision makers and governments to make informed decisions of how to grant citizens affordable access to healthcare especially the disadvantaged ones in rural areas