Developing policies for e-health: use of online health information by Australian health professionals and their patients.

This study further reports that Internet recommendations from health professionals (1-10%), Internet requests from patients (<1%) and Internet consultation processes (1%), do not mirror similar international research. It is recommended that development of policies that might influence e-health should not be based on a presumption that the use of the Internet for accessing health information is universal or that the Internet strongly influences Australian healthcare delivery. PMID: 21712557 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Health Information Management Journal - Category: Health Management Tags: HIM J Source Type: research