National Strategy for eHealth
S2006.019
| Publication date: | May 2006 |
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| Type: | Information material |
| Source: | Ministry of Health and Social Affairs |
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Summary
A range of issues relating to ICT use must be solved at national level, based on the collaboration of all actors in the health care sector. These concerns must be dealt with on the basis of a common approach and nationally established guidelines and solutions. A national e-Health strategy is needed to ensure efficient and effective use of ICT. Used as a strategic tool, ICT will promote safer, more accessible and efficient health and elderly care services.
The work to be jointly undertaken is grouped into six action areas. The first three are concerned with establishing better basic conditions for ICT in health and elderly care. The last three are about improving e-Health solutions and adapting these to patient needs. Education, training and research initiatives are crucial to all six areas. They are:
1. Bringing laws and regulations into line with extended use of ICT.
2. Creating a common information structure.
3. Creating a common technical infrastructure.
4. Facilitating interoperable, supportive ICT systems.
5. Facilitating access to information across organisational boundaries.
6. Making information and services easily accessible to citizens.
