E-health readiness assessment: promoting "hope" in the health-care institutions of Pakistan.
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2008-06-13
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e Health readiness refers to the preparedness of health care institutions to implement programmes that involve use of Information and Communication Technology ICT in provision and management of health services Level of readiness depends on a number of factors that lead to success or failure of e health programmes and thus increase or decrease hope of achieving the desired results This report presents results from in depth interviews conducted during a larger study and presents views of managers and health care providers from various institutions in Pakistan about the usefulness of e health readiness assessment tools Participants emphasized the need for implementing e health programmes in the country while appreciating the need for readiness assessment tools and the way these tools could avoid failures related to implementation of e health programmes Participants also linked e health readiness with the process of change management essential for sustainable implementation of e health programmes in the health care institutions of developing countries