eHealth addressing global challenges through ... - World of Health IT

RENEWING HEALTH:The expected impacts• Reduce hospitalisation and improve disease management• Increased links and interaction between patients and health professionals,facilitating more active participation of patients in care processes• Improvement of quality of life for patients suffering form chronic conditions• Increased use of existing or commonly agreed standards anddemonstration of interoperability of the new solutions in regular healthcarepractice• Provide a convincing business case to be presented to National, Regionaland Local Health Authorities and to stimulate them to speed up thedeployment of patient-centered eHealth service solution14