The eHealth landscape offers both opportunities and barriers to policy makers in the EU 27 member states which are not just about technical issues of interoperability and data security and confidentiality.
This study introduces the TEMPEST model which providers decision-makers with a useful tool to understand the complexity of eHealth. TEMPEST (Technical, Economic, Political, Evaluation, Social and Transformational) provides a roadmap for translating eHealth policy into practice. The goal is to move from an Informational (IT-driven) to an Transformational (Enabling Technology-driven) health care system, focused on prevention and wellness rather than diagnosis/treatment and sickness.
The TEMPEST model was developed in the framework of the Enabling Technologies project supported by Microsoft and coordinated by the Johns Hopkins University. It captures the complex and diverse healthcare systems across the EU and offers policy-makers a useful way of aligning eHealth policy with health policy.
Wendy Currie, Professor of Information Systems, University of Warwik, comments: "In this webinar, we apply TEMPEST to Germany and Spain. We identify the drivers and barriers to eHealth adoption and diffusion. With Germany's ageing and shrinking population, we look at how medical devices and remote monitoring will become more important, with Personal Health Records (PHRs) offering real benefits for citizens. In Spain, the decentralized healthcare system offers many opportunities to develop Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Patient Management Systems, to provide citizens, particularly in rural areas, with technologies for alerting patients about GP/Hospital appointments, prescriptions and test results."
Watch the webinar online:
http://www.microsoft.eu/Portals/0/Webinars/ehealth/player.html
For more information on Microsoft and its Health initiatives, visit:
http://www.microsoft.eu/health
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