The Spanish province of Andalusia has set up an eHealth service that provides on-line resources to all users across the healthcare system, Laura Muñoz-Gonzales reported. The new service provides an impressive range of service, replacing a large number of institutional subscriptions and delivering better value for money. To my amazement, the project met the support of institutional librarians who had to give up part of their budget towards the centralised resource purchasing!
As far as I can see, the gap in access to a decent range of information resources is widening all the time between countries with a central or national health service, and countries with an all-private healthcare system. The level of information services Laura presented currently has no match in countries with a private healthcare system.
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