期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN：1931-6550
出版年度：2013
卷号：39
期号：5
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：Development and deployment of e-health services and patient access to medical information is currently a priority all around the world. This attention is due to the increase in healthcare expenditures that is being experienced in the industrialized countries. In Sweden the first attempts to implement online access to medical records for patients were made in the 1990s [1]. However, the process has only recently accelerated due to necessary changes in legislation and also through the launch of extensive regional and national initiatives. In 2012 a major Swedish-lead, EU-funded project, SUSTAINS (Support USers To Access INformation and Services), was launched to implement a patient access system in 11 European countries. Earlier experience with such initiatives has shown that an effective deployment of relevant and successful services needs to be based on a thorough understanding of the technical, societal and organizational contexts of these implementations [2] [3]. In spite of the large number of studies in the field, the dynamics of the different factors is not fully understood. In this respect, SUSTAINS represents a unique national and international context of study for researchers to develop urgently needed theoretical and directly applicable knowledge, as well as guidelines for informing future implementations.
