Building Foundations for Ehealth
Subtitle: Progress of Member States (Report of the Who Observatory for Ehealth)
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: February 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9789241563352
Subjects: Health systems & services; Health Policy; History; Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Political Science; Politics/International Relations
Description: The World Health Organization's (WHO) strategy on eHealth focuses on strengthening health systems in countries; fostering public-private partnerships in ICT research and development for health; supporting capacity building for eHealth application in member states; and the development and use of norms and standards. Success in these areas is predicated on a fifth strategic direction: investigating, documenting and analyzing the impact of eHealth and promoting better understanding by disseminating information. To that end, WHO undertook a global survey on eHealth with which to garner baseline data on the current state of eHealth. Executed between mid-2005 and mid-2006, it represents the first attempt to examine eHealth from a regional as well as global perspective. Developed and implemented by the Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe), the survey focused on processes and outcomes in key eHealth action lines previously identified by the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS), which are supported by WHO as an overall framework for action.--Publisher's description.