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"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
… More »"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.
« Less- Preface
- 1 The E-Health Revolution
- 2 Online Content and Sponsorship Status
- 3 Use of Technology
- 4 Relationship between Use of Digital Technology and Attitudes toward Health Care
- 5 Digital Disparities
- 6 Information Acquisition
- 7 International Comparisons
- 8 Improving Digital Medicine
- Appendixes
- A National E-Health Public Opinion Survey
- B American Health Websites
- C Government Health Department Websites around the World
- D Content Analysis Protocol for Health Care Websites
- Notes
- Index
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.
Library Journal
This book is based on an extensive public opinion survey exploring attitudes toward electronic health communications initiated by West (vice president & director of Governance Studies, Brookings Inst.) and Miller (public policy, Brown Univ.) in 2005. The authors closely examined various web sites providing medical information for readability, authority, and objectivity, and they here provide useful appendixes listing medical web sites and pertinent standards for evaluating their content. Although they briefly outline some of the problems of implementing a national health-care provider network for medical records-one of President Obama's highly publicized new initiatives-West and Miller deal primarily with the consumer side of digital medicine. Four years from now, it will be apparent to librarians that while the general public avidly seeks medical information on the web, "digital divides" of poverty, language, literacy, and generational differences still remain significant barriers to widespread implementation of digital medical consumer services. Verdict West and Miller's exploration of the costs, concerns, and possible benefits of digital medicine is both thoughtful and timely. Librarians, health advocates, and policymakers on both sides of the issue will chew on this food for thought.-Kathy Arsenault, St. Petersburg, FL Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
Choice
This well-researched volume examines the extent to which the information revolution has changed the way Americans access health care solutions, finding that the US has barely "scratched the surface" in using Internet technology to expand and improve health care delivery. West (Brookings Institution) and Miller (Brown Univ.) employ national public opinion survey results, case studies of technology innovation, and a comparison of public and private online content to assess technological advances in the US relative to information distribution. They also provide a useful comparison of US progress in this realm with innovation around the world, concluding that the US lags behind other countries in tapping the potential of the e-health revolution. Several findings are particularly telling: the authors find significant disparities between government Internet sites versus private ones, suggesting that public sites are far better at providing dependable information, while both for-profit and nonprofit organizations demonstrate a propensity to let advertising conflicts-of-interest get in the way of providing "accurate, comprehensive, and unbiased information." Additionally, and related to the above finding, the authors find disparities in e-health access related to age, race, gender, income, education, and geography. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. S. E. Horn Everett Community College
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