Iraqi Electronic Government in Health Care

The Iraq health sector has witnessed significant progress in recent years with some local hospitals receiving international recognition. However, this has not been accompanied by advancement of the electronic-health (e-health) field, whose applications have become a necessity for hospitals to achieve certain objectives such as enhancing the quality of healthcare, and reducing the time and cost for healthcare delivery. In this paper, we will define the current state of healthcare sector in Iraq and Barriers to develop this sector in Iraq comparing with developed countries and Middle East countries by proposed new system for Iraq health care system depending on term of e-health.