Khoja Shariq, Scott Richard, Gilani Salman
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
World Hosp Health Serv. 2008;44(1):36-8.
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.
电子健康准备度是指医疗机构为实施在健康服务提供和管理中涉及使用信息通信技术（ICT）的项目所做的准备情况。准备度水平取决于许多导致电子健康项目成败的因素，进而增加或降低实现预期结果的希望。本报告展示了在一项更大规模研究中进行的深入访谈结果，并呈现了来自巴基斯坦各机构的管理人员和医疗服务提供者对电子健康准备度评估工具实用性的看法。参与者强调了在该国实施电子健康项目的必要性，同时认识到对准备度评估工具的需求，以及这些工具如何能够避免与电子健康项目实施相关的失败。参与者还将电子健康准备度与变革管理过程联系起来，这对于在发展中国家的医疗机构中可持续地实施电子健康项目至关重要。
