ICT penetration in public Greek hospitals.

Last year a survey was carried out with the main purpose to measure how ICT has been adopted in the public Greek hospitals. The survey was made possible in a rather short period of time through the utilisation of a questionnaire. H/W existence, application S/W installations, WWW sites and E-mail use as well as IT personnel employed, were among the factors that were studied. The outcomes of this survey present a rather high penetration in the administrative sector of the hospitals, whereas the medical sector faces a low level of computerisation. The absence in most of the hospitals, of a well-organised and appropriately staffed IT department, seems be one of the reasons for the low overall penetration of ICT in the average public Greek hospital.