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Before looking more closely at how Germany’s healthcare system works, analyzing what the introduction of the ‘eGK’ technology in Germany entails and who is responsible for its rollout, this subsection provides a brief overview of the development of eHealth technologies over the past years.
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Klöcker, P. (2015). Contextual Background. In: Resistance Behavior to National eHealth Implementation Programs. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17828-8_2
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