The role of ICT, healthcare investment and eHealth policy in achieving millennium development goals: A cross-country comparison

Author

Irawan, Yoke Saadia ; Koesoema, Allya P.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Inf., Inst. Teknol. Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia

fYear

2015

fDate

24-26 March 2015

Firstpage

112

Lastpage

116

Abstract

This paper describes a country level study on the impact of ICT level development, healthcare expenditures and eHealth policy establishment to public health outcomes, specifically Infant and Maternal Mortality rate (IMR & MMR), which is a key part of the Millennium Development Goals. As one of the few large sample studies connecting ICT and public health, we complement empirical results from existing case studies and present interesting insights on how the effect of ICT level development, healthcare expenditures and eHealth policy establishment to these health outcomes are not independent, but contingent to each other.

Keywords

health care; medical information systems; ICT level development; Millennium Development Goals; eHealth policy; health care expenditure; health care investment; health outcomes; infant and maternal mortality rate; information and communication technology; public health; Communications technology; Government; Investment; Pediatrics; Public finance; Public healthcare; Government health spending; Infant Mortality Rate; Maternal Mortality Rate; Millennium Development Goals; Quantitative Study; eHealth Policy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), 2015 9th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kamakura

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107509

Filename

7107509