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This chapter explores the link between the promotion of eHealth (the use of information and communication technologies such as computers and mobile phones, to deliver health-care services) and its impact on the public’s ability to access the types of knowledge and services they need. Not involving the public and patients in designing eHealth services can interfere with how eHealth can improve health service delivery.
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For example, the Romanow (2002) and Kirby (Canada 2002) reports urging the adoption of EHR and eHealth technologies to improve community-based and patient-centered care toward improving health equity; the Canadian government’s investment of $500 million in 2009 on top of the historical $1.1 billion since 2000 to develop a national EHR platform for Canadians (Alvarez 2009); and the $19 billion US stimulus in 2009 to promote the use of information technologies by health-care professionals and health systems in the United States (Blumental 2009).
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Ho, K., Binfet, J.T., Cordeiro, J., Lauscher, H.N. (2012). Public Engagement in eHealth: Toward Improving Equity in Health Evidence and Health System Renewal. In: Ho, K., Jarvis-Selinger, S., Novak Lauscher, H., Cordeiro, J., Scott, R. (eds) Technology Enabled Knowledge Translation for eHealth. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3495-5_11
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