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Towards an E-health Ecosystem for China

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E-health plays vital roles in tackling the challenges to China’s healthcare system and providing opportunities for its development in a sustainable way, aiming at equal access to affordable and consumer-centric medical service and customized personal care and wellbeing. For these aims, the authors propose an e-health ecosystem based on an analysis of challenges that the Chinese healthcare is facing, and current status of e-health market in China. The outcome of the research is a conceptual framework for the ecosystem, which will assist Chinese government in making decisions on the Internet+ healthcare; healthcare professionals in establishing e-health system standards; and industry vendors in seeking opportunities in China’s e-health market.

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Gao, X., Xu, J. (2019). Towards an E-health Ecosystem for China. In: Chen, H., Zeng, D., Yan, X., Xing, C. (eds) Smart Health. ICSH 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11924. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34482-5_5

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