Managing eHealth: From Vision to Reality

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introducing eHealth: Past, Present and Future....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
On the Creation of AIM and Its First Six Years....Pages 19-25
European eHealth Agenda, 1990–2010....Pages 26-36
From Governments to Governance: An Emerging Paradigm in eHealth....Pages 37-49
New Directions in eHealth Governance in Europe....Pages 50-60
The Emergence of EU Law and Policy on eHealth....Pages 61-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Physicians’ Perspectives on eHealth....Pages 77-94
Nursing’s Pivotal Role in eHealth: A Brief, Selective History....Pages 95-105
The Emerging Role of the Health Informatician as a Key Player on eHealth....Pages 106-119
eHealth for Patient-Driven Healthcare....Pages 120-130
Dynamic Quality Control for a Changing Internet....Pages 131-147
Social Networks for Health: A Personal Snapshot....Pages 148-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
The Role of eHealth in Supporting Care Coordination....Pages 161-173
The eHealth Contribution to Person-Centred Care....Pages 174-189
HIT: The Leadership Role of Hospitals....Pages 190-201
Recent US Experience with Health ICT....Pages 202-214
Reshaping Health in a World of Mobile Phones....Pages 215-229
eHealth in Drug Discovery and Disease Research....Pages 230-243
The European Virtual Physiological Human Initiative....Pages 244-258
Making the Economic Case for eHealth....Pages 259-273
Back Matter....Pages 275-283