A framework for delivering M-health excellence

Wickramasinghe, N and Goldberg, S 2007, 'A framework for delivering M-health excellence' in Latif Al-Hakim (ed.) Web Mobile-Based Applications for Healthcare Management, IGI, Hershey, PA, USA, pp. 36-62.


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Title A framework for delivering M-health excellence
Author(s) Wickramasinghe, N
Goldberg, S
Year 2007
Title of book Web Mobile-Based Applications for Healthcare Management
Publisher IGI
Place of publication Hershey, PA, USA
Editor(s) Latif Al-Hakim
Start page 36
End page 62
Subjects Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Summary Medical science has made revolutionary changes in the past decades. Contemporaneously, however, healthcare has made incremental changes at best. The growing discrepancy between the revolutionary changes in medicine and the minimal changes in healthcare processes is leading to inefficient and ineffective healthcare delivery, and is one, if not the significant, contributor to the exponentially increasing costs plaguing healthcare globally. Healthcare organizations can respond to these challenges by focusing on three key solution strategies, namely, (a) access, as in caring for anyone, anytime, anywhere, (b) quality, delivered by offering world-class care and establishing integrated information repositories, and (c) value, which is created by providing effective and efficient healthcare delivery. These three components are interconnected such that they continually impact on the other and are all necessary to meet the key challenges facing healthcare organizations today.
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