Cybermedicine
Subtitle: how computing empowers doctors and patients for better care
By: Warner V. Slack ;  with a foreword by Ralph Nader.
Edition: Rev. and updated ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Medical informatics.; Physician and patient.; Medical Informatics Applications.; Physician-Patient Relations.; Practice Management, Medical.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Cybermedicine and the patient; title: Providing information to patients; title: Patient-computer dialogue; title: Cybermedicine as a patient's assistant; title: Cybermedicine in psychology and psychiatry; title: The patient on-line; title: Pt. 2. Cybermedicine and the clinician; title: Cybermedicine in the hospital; title: Cybermedicine in the care of the patient; title: How well does it work?; title: The clinician on-line; title: Confidentiality; title: Pt. 3.  Modern times; title: Barriers to cybermedicine; title: The importance of being ernst; title: New horizons.