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Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-health Solutions pp 243–258Cite as

E-Health: Focusing on People-Centric Dimensions

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This chapter highlights the essential issue of people skills and knowledge for E-Health based initiatives. People-based issues have Knowledge Management (KM) at their core and the best KM implementations rely heavily on skilfully integrating technology with human requirements. The chapter features three short E-Health cases and discusses the human dimensions of each of these. Finally, we call for increased use of Populomics (a comprehensive way of studying health issues and providing focused solutions) when implementing E-Health as this produces a powerful solution taking into account multiple factors.

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  1. Biomedical Computing and Engineering Technologies (BIOCORE) Applied Research Group, Health Design and Technology Institute (HDTI), Coventry University, Coventry, UK

    Rajeev K. Bali, Caroline De Brún & Raouf N. G. Naguib

  2. Public Health and Medicine, Center for Community Health, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Michael C. Gibbons MD, MPH

  3. Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Vikraman Baskaran

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  1. RMIT University, School of Business Information Technolog, Melbourne VIC, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

  2. Coventry University, Health Design and Technology Institute (, COVENTRY West Midlands, United Kingdom

    Rajeev Bali

  3. Dept. Management, Turku School of Economics & Business Administration, Turku, Finland

    Reima Suomi

  4. Lehrst. Wirtschaftsinformatik II (510 O), Universität Hohenheim Fak. Wirtschafts-/Sozialwissenschaften, Stuttgart, Germany

    Stefan Kirn

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Bali, R.K., Gibbons, M.C., Baskaran, V., De Brún, C., Naguib, R.N.G. (2012). E-Health: Focusing on People-Centric Dimensions. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Bali, R., Suomi, R., Kirn, S. (eds) Critical Issues for the Development of Sustainable E-health Solutions. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1536-7_16

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