The Internet and health communication
Subtitle: experiences and expectations
By: Ronald E. Rice, James E. Katz, editors.
Contributors: Katz, James Everett.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
Subjects: Health -- Computer network resources; Internet; Medical telematics; Communication in medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of experiences and expectations. The internet and health communication : a framework of experiences / Ronald E. Rice; title: The future of the internet in health care : a five-year forecast / Robert Mittman and Mary Cain.  Sources of and experiences with online medical information. Consumer use of medical information from electronic and paper media : a literature review / Philip M. Napoli; title: Assessments of quality of health care information and referrals to physicians : a nationwide survey / Philip Aspden and James E. Katz; title: Use of the internet for professional purposes : a survey of New Jersey physicians / Philip Aspden, James E. Katz, and Ann E. Bemis; title: Expectations and experiences of seeking infertility information via the internet and the telephone directory / June Anigbogu and Ronald E. Rice.  Experiences developing and evaluating health information sites. Using the web to assist communities in public health campaign planning : a case study of the REACT project / John R. Finnegan, Jr. ... [et al.]; title: Evaluating a federal health-related web site : a multimethod perspective on Medicare.gov / Sid J. Schneider ... [et al.]; title: A pound of cure : a content analysis of health information on web sites of top-ranked HMOs / Elizabeth Witherspoon; title: A comparative features analysis of publicly accessible commercial and government health database web sites / Ronald E. Rice, Michael Peterson, and Robert Christine. Experiences of online health communities and of organizations moving to e-commerce. Experiencing empathy online / Jennifer J. Preece and Kambiz Ghozati; title: The role of the organization in the success of web-based continuing medical education programs / Pamela S. Whitten, Matthew S. Eastin, and David Cook; title: Improving diabetes care with telecomputing technology / Richard L. Street, Jr., and Veronica K. Piziak; title: Web-enabled hospitals in the United States : influences on adoption processes / Lauren B. Eder and Donald E. Wise; title: Competitive collaboration in Australia's pharmaceutical industry / Elizabeth More and G. Michael McGrath.  Public policy experiences and expectations. ehealth : federal issues and approaches / Cynthia Baur, Mary Jo Deering, and Leslie Hsu; title: Old wine in silicon prescription bottles : some legal issues, benefits, and disadvantages associated with internet pharmacies / Barry D. Bayer; title: Networked communication practices and the security and privacy of electronic health care records / James E. Katz and Philip Aspden; title: Concluding thoughts / James E. Katz and Ronald E. Rice.