6 Governance, Ethics, and Regulation in eHealth

DOI: 10.1201/9781003254416-6

Introduction

The imperatives of governance, the responsibilities of ethics, and the oversight of regulation: These are three characteristics that make the adoption of eHealth for modern healthcare particularly challenging for many jurisdictions, especially the fact that governance structures (both at the national and international levels) should be robust and inclusive enough to engender wider unanimity with regards to the duties and responsibilities of healthcare organizations that deploy information and communication technologies, while also ensuring that broad-based compliance is achieved with regards to all the multi-stakeholder regulatory specifications and ...

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