One of the main goals at the European level is that healthcare systems must be accessible but at the same time cost-effective and sustainable in the long term. The implementation of eHealth is one way to contribute to this goal. The presented paper is focused on the evaluation of the usage of...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...

Cover -- Vijay Pereira, Cary L. Cooper, Rajesh Chandwani, Arup Varma and Shlomo Yedidia Y. Tarba -- Mobile technology to give a resource-based knowledge management advantage to community health nurses in an emerging economies context -- Exploration of factors affecting the use of Web 2.0 for...

ch. 1. Healthcare systems : introduction / Frank M. Groom -- ch. 2. Technology as a catalyst for health enhancement / Jane Ellery, and Peter J. Ellery -- ch. 3. Health information exchange / Dave Yoder -- ch. 4. Universal data standards / Colleen Willis -- ch. 5. Healthcare information exchange...