Zimmerman 1740 5th Ave. Rock Island, Il. Will Weider, vice president of information services for Trinity Medical Center, coordinates the flow of data among management, physicians and patients. Mich. He also worked with the First Consulting Group in Chicago, and at APM Healthcare Consulting in Los Angeles, before joining Trinity in 1995. According to Mr. Weider, one day patients will be able to get their lab results back as soon as they are available, and get answers to their health questions on-line.
Patients are already e-mailing their physicians.
Another obstacle to the opening up of information to consumers is the reluctance of the elderly, who constitute a large segment of the patient population, to use computers to get and receive information. That's what gives me inspiration,'' said Mr. Weider. Copyright 2000, Moline Dispatch Publishing Co.