An investigation into the effect of Information Technology on E-health in Iran

This paper investigates the effect of Information Technology on E-health; specifically, the development of IT/ICT and E-health/Telemedicine in Iran. According to different research, some professionals believe that the development of IT/ICT could have the positive and direct impact on development of using E-health/Telemedicine in all health sectors that could lead to saving times and poor and disabled people can use best and complete medical facilities from far distances. On the other hand, some professionals believe that the best diagnosis is occurred when they have a face-to-face contact with patients. This paper reviews the development of IT and the effects that it could have on developing E-health and whether the development of E-health has any impact on preventing prevalence of HIV in Iran or not. For this purpose, the IT/ICT and Health indicators are investigated and e-readiness score of Iran is investigated during the past decade. This conclusion is reached that the development process of both IT/ICT and E-health are in progress, but the former is faster and more sensible, also the IT/ICT development trend has an impact on preventing prevalence of HIV but it is not so sensible.