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SAN FRANCISCO -- Nonphysician staff in 10 primary care clinics initially were leery of giving patients the ability to e-mail their clinics, but they became more enthusiastic 6 months after using an electronic communication system, a study of 76 staff members found.
Physicians might be more willing to offer electronic communications to patients if e-mails could be triaged by their staff, Anne F. Kittler and her associates said in a poster presentation at the triennial congress of the International Medical Informatics Association. The study suggests that staff can overcome their initial reservations to embrace the benefits of electronic communications, said Ms. Kittler of Partners HealthCare System, Wellesley, Mass.
Paper-based surveys of 76 staff before adoption of Patient Gateway, a secure Web portal for electronic communication with patients, found that 44 feared that patient ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Office staff embrace patient e-mailing.(Practice Trends)