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Evaluating eHealth: Undertaking Robust International Cross-Cultural eHealth Research
PLoS Medicine, 09/18/09

Bates DW et al. – A great deal might be gained if robust international evaluation of eHealth goes forward. In areas outside health, tremendous improvements in efficiency of resource utilization have already been realized, and there is every reason to suspect the benefits in health from implementation of eHealth may be similar. Clearly, if this is to be achieved, numerous obstacles—only some of which have been discussed—would need to be surmounted. In contrast, today it is possible to find medical knowledge using only a cell phone almost anywhere—such changes in technology are likely to transform care, both in the developing world and outside it.

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