Description (short summary):
The eHealth Strategy for 2008 – 2011 of the National Health Service (NHS) of Scotland contains a vision for eHealth which supports the goals as set out in the ‘Better Health Better Care Action Plan’, the programme to deliver a healthier Scotland by helping people to sustain and improve their health, especially in disadvantaged communities, ensuring better, local and faster access to health care.

This strategy is about exploiting the power of electronic information to help ensure that patients get the right care, involving the right clinicians, at the right time, to deliver the right outcomes. It is therefore as much about transforming traditional processes as it is about technology.

The strategy shows how the improvements will be supported over the next few years; as part of a longer term series of steps towards electronic patient records and electronic communication becoming the primary means to manage healthcare information within Scotland’s healthcare system.

Original URL:
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/

Number of pages:
24