Digital medicine : health care in the Internet era / Darrell M. West, Edward Alan Miller
- Author:
- West, Darrell M., 1954-
- Published:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2009]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2009
- Physical Description:
- xii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Miller, Edward Alan and Brookings Institution
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780815702764 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815702760 (cloth : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-173) and index.
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