Overview
Because e-health is a core resource for healthcare systems, every country needs good policies, strategies and plans, both for information and communication technology (ICT), and for the associated organisational changes that support improved health and healthcare. E-health is this combination of ICT and organisational change. This book will help health system decision-makers identify key policy issues in developing an e-health strategy and make the right decisions about the way forward. It is designed to be used in workshops with a team of people from many different backgrounds, such as senior civil servants responsible for health, ICT and finance, doctors, nurses, healthcare managers, ICT managers and suppliers. A team like this often has different views and ideas and using the workbook can help to put these together. Readers can use the workbook in many different ways: as a checklist for the agenda and topics for the team. They can use the parts that are most important to them and their work, and can add to the templates so they fit their precise needs better. Because e-health is not a single project with a fixed timescale and permanent solution, the effort and investment needed has many parts. It is complex, it changes constantly, and it is continuous. The workbook covers all the topics that will need to be addressed.
Full Product Details
Author: Tom Jones
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.163kg
ISBN: 9781849290326
ISBN 10: 1849290326
Pages: 66
Publication Date: 15 February 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Tom Jones has worked extensively in healthcare finance and information since the 1970s, including executive roles as Director of Finance and Information in the UK National Health Service, and consultancy projects in Europe, the Middle East, South America and East Africa. These include over forty economic evaluations using a generic e-health impact model, including twenty-one for the European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate, including interoperable electronic health records and e-prescribing. He also led the Directorate's e-health financing opportunities review and compiled the proposals for procuring for e-health benefits for the EC's large-scale telehealth project. Findings from these studies, and the methodologies and models he developed, provide the tools for e-health development projects linking health strategies, leadership, engagement, requirements, functionalities, architecture, usability, utilisation, change, benefits realisation and risk mitigation.
