title: Multinational surveys for monitoring eHealth policy implementations--usefulness and pitfalls.
abstract: Development of multinational variables for monitoring eHealth policy implementations is a complex task and requires multidisciplinary, knowledge-based international collaboration. Experts in an interdisciplinary workshop identified useful data and pitfalls for comparative variable development. The results are presented and discussed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Norwegian EHR Research Centre, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gilstad
authors.affiliation: Norwegian EHR Research Centre, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: Arild
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Faxvaag
authors.affiliation: Information Department, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Hannele
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hyppönen
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.affiliation: Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nøhr
authors.affiliation: The Norwegian Ministry of Health, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Kristian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Skauli
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012537:Scandinavian and Nordic Countries; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration*