Title
Comparing the quality of Latin American e-Health National Websites
Date Issued
01 December 2010
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
IE Business School
Publisher(s)
AIS Electronic Library
Abstract
This study proposes an e-Health taxonomy based on the assessment of 10 e-Health National Websites. The findings show that the degree of development of e-Health in Latin America is not homogeneous, they do not have the same standards, and they differ in their level of development. In general, the analyzed countries need to improve their e-Health initiatives in terms of diffusion, participation, and standardization. It should be reflected in collective work among governments and companies in the health industry. In this sense, our taxonomy provides governments with a general approach to the main important factors to elaborate, develop, and implement this kind of solutions. Furthermore, based on these results, governments could reinforce the factors that follow some specific dimension. Finally, we want to highlight that these initiatives should be used to reduce the digital gap, especially for access of minorities.
Start page
1418
End page
1426
Volume
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84870415373
Resource of which it is part
16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010
ISBN of the container
978-161738952-8
Conference
16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010 12 August 2010 through 15 August 2010
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