Fifer Sheila K, Thomas Norrie
Manag Care Interface. 2002 Nov;15(11):52-6.
After several years of false starts and failed enterprises, E-medicine is starting to generate practical applications in health care. The new generation of E-businesses is benefiting from the dot-com bust, which has driven away expectations of high financial returns from enterprises based on overblown, ill-fitting models taken from non-health care industries. The more successful new models are adapted to hospital operations and practice patterns, and are backed by money and management indigenous to medicine. However, they are also fragmented, in thus far unconnected pieces of E-network services for discrete clinical activities, such as scripting, lab-testing, patient monitoring, and condition-specific diagnostics and treatment. The new question about E-medicine practice may be not "When will it happen?" but "when will the fragmented E-health systems be connected?"
在经历了数年的起步不顺和企业失败后，电子医疗开始在医疗保健领域产生实际应用。新一代电子商务正受益于互联网泡沫破裂，这消除了人们对基于从非医疗保健行业照搬的夸大且不适用模式的企业获得高额财务回报的期望。更成功的新模式适应了医院运营和实践模式，并得到了医疗行业本土资金和管理的支持。然而，它们也是零散的，是用于离散临床活动（如开处方、实验室检测、患者监测以及特定病症诊断和治疗）的互不相连的电子网络服务片段。关于电子医疗实践的新问题可能不是“它何时会实现？”，而是“零散的电子健康系统何时会连接起来？”
