Global E-Health Is Focus Of New Health Affairs Issue
The promise of modern information and communications technologies, often dubbed e-health, to transform health care in developing nations is a central focus of the February 2010 edition of Health Affairs , published today. As these nations struggle to address seemingly intractable health care issues, global experts discuss the potential role of e-health, covering urgent issues such as the need for long-term investment strategies to fund effective e-health implementations, interoperability standards so that various information systems can work together both within and among developing countries, and trained health informatics workforces with competencies tailored to various nations or regions. The articles constitute a broad review of the multiple e-health applications already in use in Asia, sub…
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