TY - JOUR
T1 - ABC of health informatics
T2 - eHealth and the future: Promise or peril?
AU - Wyatt, Jeremy C.
AU - Sullivan, Frank
PY - 2005/12/10
Y1 - 2005/12/10
N2 - The balance of benefits and risks of eHealth for individual patients and clinicians over the next two to three years is unclear. Healthcare organisations and policy makers need to consider the issues that will arise. In the long term, eHealth offers many opportunities for prevention, choice, home based care, and chronic disease management, and it will widen access to health care for most patients. We all need to join the discussion and decide what we want for the future before others, who could be guided by commercial motives rather than quality and equity, do so.
AB - The balance of benefits and risks of eHealth for individual patients and clinicians over the next two to three years is unclear. Healthcare organisations and policy makers need to consider the issues that will arise. In the long term, eHealth offers many opportunities for prevention, choice, home based care, and chronic disease management, and it will widen access to health care for most patients. We all need to join the discussion and decide what we want for the future before others, who could be guided by commercial motives rather than quality and equity, do so.
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U2 - 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1391
DO - 10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1391
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16339252
AN - SCOPUS:33644670204
SN - 0959-8146
VL - 331
SP - 1391
EP - 1393
JO - British Medical Journal
JF - British Medical Journal
IS - 7529
ER -