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Author West, Darrell M., 1954-

Title Digital medicine [electronic resource] : health care in the Internet era / Darrell M. West, Edward Alan Miller.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.

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Description xii, 183 p. : ill.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Internet in medicine.
Medical informatics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Miller, Edward Alan.
Brookings Institution.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780815702764 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815702760 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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