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Title The Internet and health communication : experiences and expectations / Ronald E. Rice, James E. Katz, editors
Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 459 pages) : illustrations
Contents An overview of experiences and expectations. The internet and health communication : a framework of experiences / Ronald E. Rice -- The future of the internet in health care : a five-year forecast / Robert Mittman and Mary Cain. Sources of and experiences with online medical information. Consumer use of medical information from electronic and paper media : a literature review / Philip M. Napoli -- Assessments of quality of health care information and referrals to physicians : a nationwide survey / Philip Aspden and James E. Katz -- Use of the internet for professional purposes : a survey of New Jersey physicians / Philip Aspden, James E. Katz, and Ann E. Bemis -- Expectations and experiences of seeking infertility information via the internet and the telephone directory / June Anigbogu and Ronald E. Rice. Experiences developing and evaluating health information sites. Using the web to assist communities in public health campaign planning : a case study of the REACT project / John R. Finnegan, Jr. [and others] -- Evaluating a federal health-related web site : a multimethod perspective on Medicare.gov / Sid J. Schneider [and others] -- A pound of cure : a content analysis of health information on web sites of top-ranked HMOs / Elizabeth Witherspoon -- A comparative features analysis of publicly accessible commercial and government health database web sites / Ronald E. Rice, Michael Peterson, and Robert Christine
Experiences of online health communities and of organizations moving to e-commerce. Experiencing empathy online / Jennifer J. Preece and Kambiz Ghozati -- The role of the organization in the success of web-based continuing medical education programs / Pamela S. Whitten, Matthew S. Eastin, and David Cook -- Improving diabetes care with telecomputing technology / Richard L. Street, Jr., and Veronica K. Piziak -- Web-enabled hospitals in the United States : influences on adoption processes / Lauren B. Eder and Donald E. Wise -- Competitive collaboration in Australia's pharmaceutical industry / Elizabeth More and G. Michael McGrath. Public policy experiences and expectations. ehealth : federal issues and approaches / Cynthia Baur, Mary Jo Deering, and Leslie Hsu -- Old wine in silicon prescription bottles : some legal issues, benefits, and disadvantages associated with internet pharmacies / Barry D. Bayer -- Networked communication practices and the security and privacy of electronic health care records / James E. Katz and Philip Aspden -- Concluding thoughts / James E. Katz and Ronald E. Rice
Summary This book provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in human communication and health care resulting from the Internet revolution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Health -- Computer network resources
Internet.
Medical telematics.
Communication in medicine.
Mass media.
Public health -- United States -- Computer network resources
Communication in medicine -- United States -- Computer network resources
Medical Informatics
Electronic Data Processing
Communications Media
Internet
Internet.
mass media.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Public health -- Computer network resources
Mass media
Communication in medicine
Health -- Computer network resources
Internet
Medical telematics
Aufsatzsammlung
Gesundheitswesen
Internet
Communicatie.
Gezondheidszorg.
Internet.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Rice, Ronald E
Katz, James Everett
ISBN 9781452264424
1452264422
9781452233277
1452233276