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Challenges for a data-driven society

Fig. 2. ICT-driven “green technologies” in modern Hospitals as reflected upon relevant Industrial Property (IP) Docs.

Fig. 3. The time-dependent evolution of the IoT and the related Technologies during the last 10 years.
4. PROCURING AND EMPLOYING “GREEN” ICT new Technology and the contemporary Healthcare
AND BMT IN THE MODERN HOSPITAL evolution trail. Services and development plans and
initiatives may be parallel; however, capital support will
One of the key tasks of the Health-systems is to translate inevitably lag behind.
needs into Health-services, by procuring and employing On the other hand, only some aspects of capital investment
ICT, BMT and other Technologies and Services, in order to are disposed to rapid change, while others are constrained
translate them into appropriate facilities, i.e. Hospitals and by historical, social and economical inequalities,
other Healthcare Institutions. The context, within which undergoing only slow evolutionary changes.
health-capital investment takes place, is complex and For example, in Europe there are at least 28 different
constantly changing and it is often disrupted, by novel National Health-systems frameworks, within which public
emerging Technologies. Health-care facilities should be and private Hospitals operate. It is important to recognize
able to adapt to altering expectations and increasing needs the different contexts that differ greatly, in terms of funding,
and they have to respond to the opportunities, offered by

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