The impact of sensor-enhanced regional health information systems

Abstract. The expected economic impact of new health enabling technologies is often used as motivation for their development. Another motivation is the predicted positive impact on health care in general. The objective of this paper is to give a simple example for an economic calculation based on statistical data. A positive effect on health care in general can only be gained if the new technologies are sustainably integrated in health care processes. Keywords. Ageing society, health information systems, sensors

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DAGSTUHL
• Authors: Klaus-Hendrik Wolf, Michael Marschollek, Jürgen Howe, Reinhold Haux
• Keywords: DAGSTUHL 2007, Expected Economic Impact, Health Care, Health Enabling Technologies, Software Engineering