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This chapter will describe and discuss the applications and solutions under development or implemented in the e-Health care systems, from the technological, social, organizational dimensions. A survey of the present status in relation with e-Government will cover the leading countries (and not only) in ICT-based developments in these sectors. The major implemented solutions will be outlined regarding their actual implementation and administration. Key aspects will be outlined for Electronic Healthcare Record Systems as core systems in present or future national or regional health programs.
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This work was supported by the Bilateral Cooperation Research Project between Bulgaria and Romania (2010–2012) entitled “Electronic Health Records for the Next Generation Medical Decision Support in Romanian and Bulgarian National Healthcare Systems”, NextGenElectroMedSupport.
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Furdu, I., Pătruţ, B. (2014). Towards ICT Revolution in Healthcare: Present and Perspectives for Electronic Healthcare Record Systems. In: Iantovics, B., Kountchev, R. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Computational Technologies and Decision Support Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00467-9_6
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