While the development of pervasive e-health services is experiencing growth in many countries worldwide, existing regulatory regimes are ill-equipped for dealing with them. In this chapter, we investigate institutional regulatory factors that can impact pervasive e-health services. These factors are important as they can shape both the nature of these services and their diffusion trajectory. We argue that coregulation, a mixture of direct monitoring and intervention of regulators through legislation and complete industry self-regulation, can be an effective approach for regulating the pervasive e-health services industry. Given the complex and dynamic nature of this industry, coregulation can minimize monitoring costs and enhance compliance.
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Troshani, I., & Wickramasinghe, N. (2013). Regulating pervasive e-health services. In Pervasive Health Knowledge Management (pp. 27–41). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4514-2_4
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