Commentary on 'health care in the information society. A prognosis for the year 2013'.
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2002-11-27
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The paper entitled Health care in the information society a prognosis for the year 2013 is in this commentary compared with previous relevant documents In the paper quantitative prognoses are presented for each of 30 theses Some developments such as the influence of genomic medicine on health care were not covered by the theses ICT measures as suggested in the paper are quite acceptable but the paper does not mention side effects of ICT on health care and is therefore a bit unbalanced As a reference the Japanese grand design for information oriented health care is also introduced