Sofia Voutsidou , Evaggelos Moraitis
The role of the information technology in the health system is gradually changing from regional to effective, supportive and strategic issue. Its primary aim is to strengthen the hospital management. The modern technological developments have influenced the production and the distribution of health services. The increasing volume and range of information handled daily in the sensitive field of health, calls for the introduction and implementation of modern management and administration tools with the objective pursued, the timely supply, effective, efficient and easily accessible high-quality services that will lead to the increase of productivity, cost rationalization and optimum use of the available resources, both human and material. The present article aims to demonstrate the contribution of the electronic information management of electronic online programs implemented through health IT, in the hospital management and also the challenge of interoperability and the creation of a single electronic information grid
Keywords: Health Informatics, hospital management, transparency, open/public governance, interoperability