TY - GEN
T1 - How does politics affect electronic healthcare adoption
AU - Omary, Zanifa
AU - Mtenzi, Fredrick
AU - Wu, Bing
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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 physicianpatient 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.
AB - 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 physicianpatient 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.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77950312952
SN - 9781424456482
T3 - International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2009
BT - International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2009
T2 - International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2009
Y2 - 9 November 2009 through 12 November 2009
ER -