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Integration of ICTs in the Health System: Basic Services and Risks to Privacy

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How can a health care system respond to the gender-specificities in terms of providing accurate and timely information & services? And in what way can ICTs augment or challenge this effort? Natalia Fernandez presents a summary overview of various approaches by governments in different regions in adopting ICTs in health care, and highlights the potential risks to privacy that they can potentially create.

Challenges, achievements and gaps
When we talk about new technologies in our everyday life, it is more than becoming familiar with internet and its potential as a main source for data. Information of all kinds, if we are privileged enough to have regular access, can be transformed into knowledge.

One of the fields where technology is influential is health care. I don’t say anything new when I affirm that health care, research and prevention affect women differently from men, whilst bearing in mind that women are not a homogeneous group.

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