Exam 14: Health Care Globalization Through Health Information Technology Enabled Initiatives

IT is now key for health care in both strategy and operations.

Tele-consultation occurs with a time-delay between provision of care and receipt by the patient.

During which of the following time periods was globalization not a force that affected society?

Patients can self-monitor their EKGs in tele-cardiology.

Name four major types of telemedicine and provide some applications of each.

Identify factors and barriers influencing the adoption of e-health among healthcare organizations and providers.

Which stakeholder could, by refusal, prevent implementation of otherwise flawless health IT?

What barrier to adoption of e-health might most affect a rural county?

Discuss the relevance of each tier in the World Health Organization (WHO) framework for strategic e-health development presented in this chapter.

TAM can be used to study why and when people resist telemedicine.

Discuss the production possibility frontier (PPF) and positive externality economic perspectives and their implications on e-health.