Policy implications for smart healthcare: the international collaboration dimension

Abstract

The recent evolution of information and communication technology leads to a significant shift in the agenda and promise of medical informatics. Smart healthcare is promoted as a unified paradigm of novel insights for personalized medicine worldwide. In this era of early adoption, investments in medical informatics, especially in the context of research and development projects as well as in commercialized technologies, envision the ultimate objective: to facilitate a sociotechnological ecosystem of data, services, applications, and applied medical systems for the promotion of health and wellbeing. The purpose of this concluding chapter is to set up a context for further dialog related to the integration of innovation in medical systems and advanced policy making.