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The Next Transformation in the Delivery of Health Care
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Several subtle trends will have a profound influence on the delivery of health care: the rapid growth of computer-based electronic communication, the fact that a new generation is increasingly comfortable with the electronic transfer of information, and the . Abstract:
Despite the perils of predicting the future of our health care system, many people have weighed in on how they expect the delivery of care to evolve. Such predictions are usually based on the conspicuous trend toward industrial-size delivery networks involving large populations enrolled in managed-care plans, vertically integrated medical center conglomerates, and a few giant insurance companies.1–3 In my view, several subtle trends will have a profound influence on the delivery of health care: the rapid growth of computer-based electronic communication, the fact that a new generation is increasingly comfortable with the electronic transfer of information, and the . . .read more
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Assessing, Controlling, and Assuring the Quality of Medical Information on the Internet: Caveant Lector et Viewor—Let the Reader and Viewer Beware
TL;DR: The problem is not too little information but too much, vast chunks of it incomplete, misleading, or inaccurate, and not only in the medical arena, the Net has the potential to become the world's largest vanity press.
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Use of the Internet and e-mail for health care information: results from a national survey.
TL;DR: Although many people use the Internet for health information, use is not as common as is sometimes reported and effects on actual health care utilization are also less substantial than some have claimed.
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Reliability of health information for the public on the World Wide Web: systematic survey of advice on managing fever in children at home.
TL;DR: Only a few web sites provided complete and accurate information for this common and widely discussed condition, suggesting an urgent need to check public oriented healthcare information on the internet for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
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Blood glucose tracking apparatus and methods
Steven Drucker,Charles T. Liamos,Fredric C. Colman,Mark Lortz,Kelley Lipman,Feng Jiang,Henrik Bacho +6 more
TL;DR: A measurement module for glucose testing includes a glucose testing measurement module housing, a test strip receptacle formed in the housing, and a connector portion formed in a housing and shaped to permit mechanical removable attachment of the housing to a hand-held computer as mentioned in this paper.
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Communicating Breast Cancer On-Line: Support and Empowerment on the Internet
TL;DR: It is concluded that the List fulfills the functions of a community, with future concerns about information control and the potential to enhance patient-provider understanding.
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The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
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Incorporating Patients' Preferences into Medical Decisions
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Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnosis
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NCSA Mosaic and the World Wide Web: Global Hypermedia Protocols for the Internet
Bruce R. Schatz,Joseph Hardin +1 more
TL;DR: The technology underlying NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) Mosaic and the World Wide Web have made global hypermedia a widespread reality for the first time and the technology underlying this software is described to explain the protocols behind information spaces.
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Patient reaction to computer-based medical interviewing
TL;DR: Patients, when interfaced in conversation with a computer programmed as a model of the physician interviewer, have been found to react positively to the experience.