Shivakumar Kolachalam

Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna, Pisa

Providing healthcare services to its citizens is government’s responsibility. Healthcare is an institution that meets some of society’s most critical needs and, any member of the society, sometime or other may avail these services. In Health, as indeed in all business sectors, dynamic developments in technology continue to drive challenging opportunities for paradigm shifts in service delivery. This paper endeavours to help in understanding e-Health.
Keywords: e-Health, EHR, HIS, CIS, HL7, PKI, Privacy, Broadband.
Note: Some contents of this paper were presented at the public seminars- “Progress of e-Health in Australia: 20 years of achievement”, for the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA), at the Western Australian Department of Health, East Perth (WA) and “Reviewing the South Australian OACIS Model (Open Architecture Clinical Information System)”, for the Centre for Health Informatics Research and St John of God Health Care, at St John of God Health Care, Subiaco (WA).