Title
Digital medicine : health care in the Internet era / Darrell M. West, Edward Alan Miller.
ISBN
9780815702764 (alk. paper)
0815702760 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 183 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
R859.7.I58 W47 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
610.285/46
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
