The Role of Information Technology in Contemporary Health Management in IRAN in regard with a Future Outlook

Abstract

This article aims to delineate health management system functions and also introduce current Iran's health system. Three basic applications of information and communications technology applications in the medical field-e health, telemedicine and mobile healthcare going to be explained by reviewing previous studies in regard with contemporary conditions in Iran. Considering this fact that growing telecommunications & informatics industry have brought a revolution in the development of all industries, leads us to this conclusion that the development of these technologies in medical sectors can bring a huge up heavily in health management systems in the near future Storage systems for patient information, medical information systems, medical& surgical procedures, tracking systems management, remote management systems, guiding nurses systems, surge on robots, patient reservation, and many others systems have a common goal which facilitates health management by information technology. Universal access to medical information in the context of electronic networks is not anymore a far dream.

Keywords

• electronic health
• telemedicine
• mobile health
• ict