ICT penetration in public Greek hospitals.
Last year a survey was carried out with the main purpose to measure how ICT has been adopted in the public Greek hospitals. The survey was made possible in a rather short period of time through the utilisation of a questionnaire. H/W existence, application S/W installations, WWW sites and E-mail use as well as IT personnel employed, were among the factors that were studied. The outcomes of this survey present a rather high penetration in the administrative sector of the hospitals, whereas the medical sector faces a low level of computerisation. The absence in most of the hospitals, of a well-organised and appropriately staffed IT department, seems be one of the reasons for the low overall penetration of ICT in the average public Greek hospital.
Department of IT projects for the Public Sector Computer Technology Institute, Aristotelous 19, GR-10187 Athens, Greece.
Aristides
A
Vagelatos
Dimitrios
D
Sofotassios
Christos
C
Papanikolaou
Christos
C
Manolopoulos
D006115:Greece; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires