Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

West, Darrell M., 1954-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Miller, Edward Alan.
• Brookings Institution.

Description

xii, 183 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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.

Subjects

• Internet in medicine
• Telemedicine
• Internet
• Medical Informatics
• Medical informatics

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

1. The e-health revolution -- 2. Online content and sponsorship status -- 3. Use of technology -- 4. Relationship between use of digital technology and attitudes toward health care -- 5. Digital disparities -- 6. Information acquisition -- 7. International comparisons -- 8. Improving digital medicine -- App. A. National e-health public opinion survey -- App. B. American health Websites -- App. C. Government health department Websites around the world -- App. D. Content analysis protocol for health care Websites.

ISBN

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

LCCN

2009006454

OCLC

• ocn294886450
• 294886450
• SCSB-5476266

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries