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Organizing Committee
eHealth Forum 2009
27 Oct 2009
Recognizing the challenges that arise from increased demand for medical services and the need to enhance disease surveillance and response to public-health emergencies, governments of advanced economies are taking a critical look at how to channel the available resources into their healthcare systems to enhance the continuity of care and better integration of different healthcare services for the benefits of their citizens. In Hong Kong, our Government has been active in promoting eHealth in our healthcare system over the years. A territory-wide electronic health record (eHR) system was recognized as the infrastructure for the reforms, particularly a market structure which promotes greater public-private partnership (PPP), as proposed in the Healthcare Reform Consultation issued in March 2008.
The development of a territory-wide eHR system is fundamental to PPP in the healthcare sector as it provides a framework for the transition of patients between different levels of care and between the public and private sectors. The eHealth Forum 2009, themed “We Care, We Share: Creating Our eHealth Future”, seeks to address the key issues reached among healthcare professionals from both the public and private sectors now and on the road towards a successful implementation of eHR . It aims to achieve the following objectives:
- To promote stakeholders’ understanding of the major eHR components on the roadmap of its development
- To gain a more in-depth appreciation of current and future development plans for electronic medical / patient record (eMR / ePR) in public and private healthcare sectors
- To share ideas that can promote inter-operability of eMR / ePR systems and seamlessness in eHR sharing
