TY - JOUR
T1 - Mobile Technology and Public Health Organizational System
AU - Franco, Massimo
AU - Tursunbayeva, Aizhan
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Information technology has a transformation power and it enables to conquer complexity. Public health system is very complex. Recently with a wide spread of mobile technology globally, public and private health systems have also seen its rapid growth and integration targeting to reduce the existing complexity, costs, human errors and as a result to simplify the processes, increase health professionals mobility and improve patient outcomes. The aim of this paper is to review the overall socio-economic impact, benefits and challenges of mobile technology integration into the public health system for all the stakeholders and to identify whether it simplifies their existing problems or “complexifies” them.
AB - Information technology has a transformation power and it enables to conquer complexity. Public health system is very complex. Recently with a wide spread of mobile technology globally, public and private health systems have also seen its rapid growth and integration targeting to reduce the existing complexity, costs, human errors and as a result to simplify the processes, increase health professionals mobility and improve patient outcomes. The aim of this paper is to review the overall socio-economic impact, benefits and challenges of mobile technology integration into the public health system for all the stakeholders and to identify whether it simplifies their existing problems or “complexifies” them.
U2 - 10.4468/2014.1.06franco.tursunbayeva
DO - 10.4468/2014.1.06franco.tursunbayeva
M3 - Article
SN - 1593-0319
VL - 2014
SP - 80
EP - 89
JO - Symphonya
JF - Symphonya
IS - 1
ER -