How does politics affect electronic healthcare adoption

Author

Omary, Z. ; Mtenzi, F. ; Bing Wu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Dublin Inst. of Technol., Dublin, Ireland

fYear

2009

fDate

9-12 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

In the 21 century, the term e-healthcare has become the common buzzword in the world. Its popularity is directly related to the rate of its adoption and benefits that it offers to individuals and governments. Among the common benefits include reduction in medical errors, improvements on physician efficiency, improvement in physician-patient relationship and an increase in the quality of care delivered. Despite all these benefits, politics is one among the obstacles hindering its adoption. In this paper we analyse how politics at local, national and international levels affect e-healthcare adoption and thereafter we suggest appropriate alternatives to overcome these obstacles.

Keywords

health care; politics; e-healthcare adoption; electronic healthcare adoption; medical errors; physician-patient relationship; politics; Availability; Biomedical imaging; Communications technology; Computer errors; Costs; Electronic medical prescriptions; Government; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, 2009. ICITST 2009. International Conference for

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5647-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICITST.2009.5402502

Filename

5402502