“Information technology applied to healthcare – broadly termed e-health – is set to revolutionise patient care and how healthcare systems can be structured and managed. However, different obstacles are standing in the way for Europe to truly embrace the digital reform of its healthcare systems.
Europe’s aging population and increase in chronic lifestyle illnesses pose serious challenges and strains to the sustainability of governments’ national health and social care systems, which are mostly based on public financing.”
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Helena Spongenberg, BusinessWeek, 18 February 2010
