Digital medicine
Subtitle: health care in the Internet era
By: Darrell M. West, Edward Alan Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Edward Alan.; Brookings Institution.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780815702764
Subjects: Internet in medicine; Medical informatics; Medical Informatics; Internet; Telemedicine
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The e-health revolution; title: Online content and sponsorship status; title: Use of technology; title: Relationship between use of digital technology and attitudes toward health care; title: Digital disparities; title: Information acquisition; title: International comparisons; title: Improving digital medicine.