• DocumentCode
    1121405
  • Title

    Global Information Health Networks Get a Boost

  • Author

    Goth, Greg

  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    4
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    IBM and about 20 organizations, including the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced the Global Pandemic Initiative in May 2006. IBM pledged to contribute several pieces of its health care technology portfolio to the open source community to help launch the initiative´s work. However, progress toward electronic health records and networks that could support population-based applications is moving slowly among national government agencies, especially in the US.
  • Keywords
    Health issues; computer related; electronic health records; medical information systems; Consumer electronics; Costs; Diseases; Influenza; Information technology; Investments; Medical services; Portfolios; Public healthcare; Public policy; Health issues; computer related; electronic health records; medical information systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Distributed Systems Online, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1541-4922
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MDSO.2006.43
  • Filename
    1673352