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eHealth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Development and Policy Issues

This paper reviews trends and issues in health and in the information and communication technologies (ICT) market as they relate to the deployment of eHealth solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Heretofore designed for industrialized countries and large organizations, eHealth solutions are...

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Autores principales: Rodrigues, Roberto J, Risk, Ahmad
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Gunther Eysenbach 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12746209
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5.1.e4
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description This paper reviews trends and issues in health and in the information and communication technologies (ICT) market as they relate to the deployment of eHealth solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Heretofore designed for industrialized countries and large organizations, eHealth solutions are being proposed as an answer to a variety of health-system management problems and health care demands faced by all health organizations including those in developing societies. Particularly, eHealth is seen as especially useful in the operational support of the new health care models being implemented in many countries. The authors examine those developments vis-à-vis the characteristics of the Latin American and the Caribbean health-sector organizational preparedness and technological infrastructure, and propose policy and organizational actions to foster the development of eHealth solutions in the region.
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spelling pubmed-15505502006-10-13 eHealth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Development and Policy Issues Rodrigues, Roberto J Risk, Ahmad J Med Internet Res Review This paper reviews trends and issues in health and in the information and communication technologies (ICT) market as they relate to the deployment of eHealth solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Heretofore designed for industrialized countries and large organizations, eHealth solutions are being proposed as an answer to a variety of health-system management problems and health care demands faced by all health organizations including those in developing societies. Particularly, eHealth is seen as especially useful in the operational support of the new health care models being implemented in many countries. The authors examine those developments vis-à-vis the characteristics of the Latin American and the Caribbean health-sector organizational preparedness and technological infrastructure, and propose policy and organizational actions to foster the development of eHealth solutions in the region. Gunther Eysenbach 2003-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC1550550/ /pubmed/12746209 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5.1.e4 Text en © Roberto J Rodrigues, Ahmad Risk. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 31.3.2003. Except where otherwise noted, articles published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, including full bibliographic details and the URL (see "please cite as" above), and this statement is included.
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