The open access journal PLoS Medicine has just published a British study, The Impact of ehealth on the quality and safety of health care : a systematic overview.
The authors conclude, "There is a large gap between the postulated and empirically demonstrated benefits of eHealth technologies. In addition, there is a lack of robust research on the risks of implementing these technologies and their cost-effectiveness has yet to be demonstrated, despite being frequently promoted by policymakers and 'techno-enthusiasts' as if this was a given." In the light of this, they recommend ehealth technologies should be evaluated against a comprehensive set of measures including socio-technical factors throughout implementation and adoption.
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