Digital medicine [electronic resource] : health care in the Internet era / Darrell M. West, Edward Alan Miller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.Description: xii, 183 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 610.285/46 22
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  • R859.7.I58 W47 2009eb
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Contents:
The e-health revolution -- Online content and sponsorship status -- Use of technology -- Relationship between use of digital technology and attitudes toward health care -- Digital disparities -- Information acquisition -- International comparisons -- Improving digital medicine.
Summary: "Investigates factors limiting the ability of digital technology to remake health care. Analyzes data sources to study content of health care-related websites, sponsorship status, public usage, and the relationship between e-health use and health care attitudes. Examines the different ways in which officials overseas have implemented health information technology"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-173) and index.

The e-health revolution -- Online content and sponsorship status -- Use of technology -- Relationship between use of digital technology and attitudes toward health care -- Digital disparities -- Information acquisition -- International comparisons -- Improving digital medicine.

"Investigates factors limiting the ability of digital technology to remake health care. Analyzes data sources to study content of health care-related websites, sponsorship status, public usage, and the relationship between e-health use and health care attitudes. Examines the different ways in which officials overseas have implemented health information technology"--Provided by publisher.

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