Manifesto for E-Health Success (original) (raw)

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.