With eHealth, Healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, and other professionals) will have ready access to…
- Their patient’s data at any time, in any place, when there is a need to know.
- The best available evidence based knowledge, from trusted sources worldwide.
- Necessary services to support their work, both clinically and administratively, including automated referrals.
- Other colleagues, via email, tele-consultations, at any location in the country.
- Advanced diagnostic tools and decision support services.
- Systems with built-in intelligence which help prevent medical errors and adverse events.
- Continuous Medical Education (CME), much of it available online.
- Information that allows them to compare their own practice results and trends against national performance statistics.
- The latest medical technology, equivalent to what would be found in the private sector, or in other developed countries.
- Wait to receive the results of diagnostic tests, or the results of other patient consults or services; the results will be delivered electronically as soon as available.
- Waste time gathering patient data that has already been captured elsewhere.
- Waste time dealing with patients who do not show up for appointments, or have already been diagnosed and served, and are simply shopping around.
- Perform redundant tests and procedures on patients, since information about services they have previously received will be available online.