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The paper explores several areas linked to information management systems throughout Asia Pacific, and reveals a strong general trend towards improved management systems. It also highlights the massive growth of data that governments are required to keep and the challenge of keeping up with expected future growth.
A total of 98 Asian public sector IT executives in nine Asia-Pacific countries were surveyed about the development of information management in their organisations. The study included respondents from Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia, India and Pakistan.
This paper explores the current state and use of IT within healthcare organisations across Asia Pacific, and the strategic value given to electronic record management (ERM) as they are moving into the future. It highlights the efforts that public sector health organisations in the region place on converting paper forms into digital formats, the move toward greater automation and the improvements this is likely to bring to improving patient care and workflow.
In Planning Ahead – Is Asia’s Healthcare Sector Ready for the Future?, researchers sought responses from public sector IT Executives in The People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan. The survey attracted 169 complete responses in total.