Abstract:
This dissertation aims to illustrate main requirements and barriers for making an e-Healthmodel. We emphasized on a basic World Health Organisation‟s (WHO) definition andselected experiential strategic planning under discussion as a well-suit pattern for the e-Health care system. The resource based strategy was considered to present a holistic framework foran e-Health strategic planning. Further, an economical sub-model was essential to coverfinances such as Return on Investment (ROI) and Technical Issues. While, there are many information management advantages, we have noted some problematic issues to highlighte-Health barriers. Since, we faced three main factors such as human, ICT and investment resource in e-Health care system, therefore, we selected two research methods. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to present social and natural science too. To do this, twice we conducted interviews with 75 e-Health experts. Finally, the holistic andconceptual model and financial sub-model were designed.
Machine summary:
"This research aims to examine e-Health strategic requirements, in order to develop a holistic framework for analysis to design such a strategy.
In doing so, it is necessary to address current health views, aims, visions, missions, strategies and policies and capacities for planning towards the e-Health mission in order to use e-Health advantages through Information Management (IM) to give better healthcare services to patients and other stakeholders (British Colombia, 2011) In fact, e-Health is an extremely broad topic, encompassing the many different domains of information and communication technologies responsible for supporting many aspects of healthcare provisions.
Support and financial assessment The above framework illustrates an important cycle based on the research we conducted; it has been designed in accordance with the Deming Cycle (Deming, 1980), which is a pragmatic process to the deployment of e-Health planning.
We faced a number of limitations in collecting data, which we reviewed, but this did not stop us in our mission to consider management and economic issues in our framework for e-Health strategic planning.
In line with work done by Wit and Meyer, we adjusted our research process to be compatible with core philosophical perspectives that would justify our data collecting technique and allow us to build a strategic plan of e-Health for Iran.
6. Conclusion and future works According to the aim and objectives of this research and based on research processes that focus on strategy, we designed a holistic framework for e-Health strategic planning in Iran."