Information Infrastructures within European Health Care

1. Introduction
Margunn Aanestad, Miria Grisot, Ole Hanseth, Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou

Part I. Information Infrastructures in Healthcare

2. Information Infrastructures for eHealth
Margunn Aanestad, Miria Grisot, Ole Hanseth, Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou

3. Information Infrastructures and the Challenge of the Installed Base
Margunn Aanestad, Miria Grisot, Ole Hanseth, Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou

4. Strategies for Building eHealth Infrastructures
Margunn Aanestad, Miria Grisot, Ole Hanseth, Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou

Part II. E-Prescription Infrastructures

5. Maintaining the Pharmacy Model: The Catalan Electronic Prescription Infrastructure
Joan Rodon Modol

6. The ePrescription Initiative and Information Infrastructure in Norway
Ole Hanseth, Bendik Bygstad

7. Cultivating the Installed Base: The Introduction of e-Prescription in Greece
Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou, Nicolas Marmaras

8. England’s Electronic Prescription Service
Ralph Hibberd, Tony Cornford, Valentina Lichtner, Will Venters, Nick Barber

9. The Challenges of Implementing Packaged Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicine Administration Systems in UK Hospitals: Premature Purchase of Immature Solutions?
Hajar Mozaffar, Robin Williams, Kathrin M. Cresswell, Neil Pollock, Zoe Morrison, Aziz Sheikh

10. Medication Infrastructure Development in Germany
Stefan Klein, Stefan Schellhammer

Part III. Governmental Patient-Oriented eHealth Infrastructures

11. Navigating Towards Self-Care: The Catalan Public Patient Portal
Joan Rodon Modol

12. The Norwegian eHealth Platform: Development Through Cultivation Strategies and Incremental Changes
Miria Grisot, Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou, Margunn Aanestad

13. Building National Healthcare Infrastructure: The Case of the Danish e-Health Portal
Tina Blegind Jensen, Anne Asmyr Thorseng

14. The Swedish Patient Portal and Its Relation to the National Reference Architecture and the Overall eHealth Infrastructure
Nina Sellberg, Johan Eltes

15. The Origins of a Healthcare e-Booking System in the Municipality of Bologna
Andrea Resca, Mauro Moruzzi

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Health Informatics, Health Informatics, Health Administration, Public Administration