Pan-Arctic collaborative for eHealth : need, value, lessons

• Main Authors: Scott, Richard E., Khoja, Shariq, Durrani, Hammad
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Health Innovation & Information Technology Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, CA 2009
• Subjects: E-HEALTH; RESEARCH NETWORKS; COLLABORATION; ARCTIC REGION; HEALTH RESEARCH; CANADA; NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; Arctic; Canada; Yellowknife
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10625/41769

Meeting: International Congress on Circumpolar Health, 14th, 11-16 July, 2009, Yellowknife, NWT, CA The presentation outlines some initiatives taken under the umbrella of the PAN Asian Collaboration for Evidence-based e-Health Adoption and Application (PANACeA), its history, challenges and successes. It introduces the idea of building a similar Pan-Arctic body towards circumpolar health, using e-Health models. The creation of a Pan-Arctic Collaboration for eHealth / Research (PACeR) would be a first step in identifying, designing, and implementing ‘technologically appropriate and culturally sensitive’ approaches.