E-health: IT as enhancing mecanism for healcare development

• Autor(a) principal: André, Sara
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Paulo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2020.9467

Information Technology (IT) plays a substantial role in business innovation and progress nowadays. Aiming to improve its own management the healthcare sector has experienced, over the past decades, its own technological immersion. Considering that, this paper intends to establish a state of progress and deepen knowledge in the field of application and evolution of IT in the healthcare sector by defining the concept and coverage of e-health as well as identify possible barriers and strategies to progress. This paper results from an integrative review of the existing bibliography in the field of IT in healthcare and e-health, it’s implementation and worldwide future perspective but also to set a bridge to the Portuguese experience. Data collection was obtained through “B-ON”, “PROQUEST” and “ACADEMIA” databases and healthcare related organization’s websites as it is an example the World Health Organization. We verify that e-health is indeed at the center of worldwide agenda’s but there are still many significant barriers that compromise its efficiency requiring additional efforts from organizations such as WHO among others. In respect to the Portuguese health service, it is essential that constant investment and progression to implement new measures that ensure a more equal access to all the population is made in order to achieve a positive impact on their healthcare and consequent reduction of healthcare costs. Following that, it’s also important to investigate about potential conditioning factors for change and how to overcome that.