Health care, or healthcare, refers to the treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, pharmaceutical, clinical laboratory sciences (in vitro diagnostics), nursing, and allied health professions. Health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including “preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations”.[Source: Wikipedia]
ICT supports healthcare and healthcare systems not only in the management of data, but also to create means for a more predictive, individualised, efficient, and safer healthcare.
This topic is addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 (p.60, 117) under the following challenges/ objectives:
> Challenge 5: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
