e-Health Program Evaluation

Paper Summary:

The paper details e-health's many benefits to consumers and providers but emphasizes how they must be counterbalanced with ethicacy, privacy and security requirements. The paper contends that the development of e-health platforms is inevitable as scalability and agility of applications are going to be critical well into the future.

Outline:
Executive Summary
Benefits and Limitations from a Consumer Perspective
Benefits and Limitations from a Provider Perspective
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"There are many varying definitions of what e-health is today, yet all these varying descriptions of the collection of processes, technologies and applications when taken together share the common attribute of defining a platform that can scale both in usage levels and complexity of applications. Swartz (2006) has defined e-health as a process- and needs-based IT infrastructure capable of staying agile enough into design to respond to patients' and health practitioner's unmet needs. The concept of e-health being predicated on a very high level of system integration, including real-time in-bound and outbound data streams and accompanying analytical tools to measure and refine performance through medical informatics is another perspective (James, 2005)."

Sample of Sources Used:

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