Title :
Re-engineering of the public health care services-using telemedicine applications
Author :
Loula, Pekka ; Jaakkola, Hannu ; Rantanen, Pentti
Author_Institution :
Tampere Univ. of Technol., Pori, Finland
Abstract :
The re-engineering of the public health care services can be done with the help of improved usage of telecommunication and information technology. This paper determines the problems related to the health care re-engineering and proposes a virtual seamless care concept to solve them. The paper also introduces a telemedicine centre of excellence
Keywords :
administrative data processing; health care; management of change; medical administrative data processing; medical computing; software development management; systems re-engineering; centre of excellence; information technology; public health care services re-engineering; seamless care concept; telecommunication; telemedicine applications; Business; Europe; Hospitals; Information technology; Licenses; Medical services; Public healthcare; Telecommunication computing; Telemedicine; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Innovation in Technology Management - The Key to Global Leadership. PICMET '97: Portland International Conference on Management and Technology
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3574-0
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.1997.653628
