| Resumen: |
This is a shared work that reflects a shared goal – responding to the needs of countries, at every
level of development, who seek to adapt and employ the latest information communication
technologies (ICT) in health for the measurable benefit of their citizens. The National eHealth
Strategy Toolkit is a milestone in our understanding of what eHealth is, what it can do, and why
and how it should be applied to health care today.
The Toolkit is a comprehensive, practical guide that all governments, their ministries,
departments and agencies can adapt to suit their own circumstances and their own vision and
goals. Its publication is very timely. This is a period when all health systems face stringent
economic challenges, greater demands for efficiencies and higher expectations from citizens.
There is, everywhere, an urgent challenge to provide more care and better care to more people,
especially those most in need.
This Toolkit expertly demonstrates how all nations can rise to that challenge, each in its
own way. While it brings the sectors of health and ICT much closer together, the Toolkit also
encourages the active participation of a wider range of stakeholders, including the general
public, reflecting important issues of social justice and equity. By bringing all of these interested
parties together, the Toolkit offers them a chance to share in a unique national project whose
ambition is nothing less than to achieve lasting progress in public and individual health. |
