Successful partnerships for international collaboration in e-health: The need for organized national infrastructures

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 395-397

  Yunkap Kwankam, S ^a  

^a International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; E-HEALTH; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; TELEMEDICINE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84860474769     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.12.103770     Document Type: Article

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