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Patients, Physicians, And The Internet: Coming generations of doctors are ready to embrace new technology, but few incentives now exist to encourage their older peers to do likewise.
Abstract
The Internet will have a profound effect on the practice and business of medicine. Physicians, eager to provide high-quality care and forced by competition to offer online services, will introduce e-mail and patient-friendly Web sites to improve administrative services and manage common medical conditions. Patients will identify more health information online and will take more responsibility for their care. The doctor/patient relationship will be altered: Some aspects of electronic communication will enhance the bond, and others will threaten it. Patients will have access to vast information sources of variable validity. Many physician organizations are preparing for the electronic transformation, but most physicians are unprepared, and many are resistant.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kassirer, J. P.
- Venue
- Health Affairs
- Publisher
- Health Affairs Publishing, LLC
- Published
- 2000-11
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 115-123
- ISSN
- 0278-2715 (ISSN-L)
- 1544-5208
- OpenAlex
- W2121778589
- Cited by
- 211
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 30.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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