1. E-Society and knowledge uptake in the public health sector
Generally, the health sector is one of the most knowledge-intensive sectors among all of the public service areas. Thus in this sector, the statement that “technology is the highest contributor of productivity growth” is more valid and more timely than in other publicly financed territories.

Innovation is an ability of research and the capability of applying new solutions. It is obvious that IT determines innovative capability, although innovation might stem from various fields. It has been proven a major policy simplification that more connectivity is equal to more knowledge uptake.

2. What do we mean by E-health? Since the aging European societies face enormous challenges in coping with the tension between the technologically possible and the economically affordable, IT offers significant changes in the way we might think about public healthcare services.

We define e-health as using IT technologies in order to increase the performance of public health systems without any respect on who the user is. Thus according to our definition, users might be doctors, patients, family members as well as civil servants or medical university students and teachers. The other impact of E-health is: organizational change. It is important to state that no technology can efficiently serve workflows managed by a non-cooperative staff.

3. Centralized E-health model
The centralized E-health model stems from the service provider – in case of public healthcare the state, state authority, agency, social security institution – and targets the individual patient throughout a complex mechanism of entities and regulations. The centralized model can embrace clinical, telehealth, distributed and complied applications. Clinical E-health applications provide professional support for entitled workforce of hospitals and other.

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