Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Assessing E-Health

Assessing E-Health

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Elie Geisler, Jonathan Schaffer
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781605660509|ISBN10: 1605660507|EISBN13: 9781605660516
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch002
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Wickramasinghe, Nilmini, et al. "Assessing E-Health." Medical Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Joseph Tan, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 17-36. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch002

APA

Wickramasinghe, N., Geisler, E., & Schaffer, J. (2009). Assessing E-Health. In J. Tan (Ed.), Medical Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 17-36). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch002

Chicago

Wickramasinghe, Nilmini, Elie Geisler, and Jonathan Schaffer. "Assessing E-Health." In Medical Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Joseph Tan, 17-36. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch002

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

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 chapter first develops a framework to assess a country’s preparedness with respect to embracing e-health (i.e., 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.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.