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Author:

West, Darrell M., 1954-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Brookings Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xii, 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Internet in medicine.
Medical informatics.
Medical Informatics.
Internet.
Telemedicine.

Other Authors:

Miller, Edward Alan.
Brookings Institution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-173) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0815702760 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815702764 (cloth : alk. paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)294886450

LCCN:

2009006454

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)