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TopThe application of information systems in healthcare leads to clinical informatization. To better understand the concept of clinical digital transformation, it is necessary to go to the bottom of this issue, the process of informatization. This concept is rooted in the society since the '60s when the first definition of the term emerged. In the late '60s, in Japan, it was named johoka, and intended to cover the phenomenon of social change in which a nation tries to advance in order to achieve an information society character (Rogers, 2000).
Since then, many definitions for this term arose. Although, the digital transformation is the process in which the implementation of information and communication technologies lead to many transformations, minimizing the cultural and economic barriers, shaping the cultural and civic discourse and, above all, leading to socio-economic development. This growth happened simultaneously with the transformation of society into an increasingly more information society (Rogers, 2000; Jandt, 2004). In 1994, Georgette Wang defined this process as “a process of change that features (a) the use of information and IT [Information Technologies] to such an extent that they become the dominant forces in commanding economic, political, social and cultural development and (b) unprecedented increase in speed, quantity and popularity of information production and distribution”(Jandt, 2004; Wang, 1994).