With the click of a button e-health system will answer all the needs of all in the health care picture as it exists. That is wishful thinking. In my country Pakistan first of all a complete database of existing healthcare services will be required. Next updating of this database will have to be done relentlessly and constantly. The picture has a humungous range. From State-of-the-Art medical facilities to one room medical care centres devoid of doctors, medicine and supportive medical staff there in our rural "outback"!!

To connect this wide range of facility would be like comparing a life saving operation through internet communication, with rescue squad on a "chopper" saving the life of an injured survivor on the slopes of a thickly forested mountain. That would be some communication, coordination, expedited instruction!!! But how would that be for just a beginning!?