Information Infrastructures Within European Health Care: Working with the Installed Base (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Introduction.- Overview of e-prescription and public patient-oriented web platforms.- Services supported aims-antecedents-the role of national and EU policies.- Information infrastructures and notions related to them, definition and role of the installed base.- Structure and process for infrastructural development.- e-prescription: Germany, Greece, Norway, Spain, UK.- Cross-country commentary.- Public patient-oriented web platforms: Denmark, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK.- Cross-country commentary.- A framework for making sense and working with the installed base.