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Prepare to Move to Internet-Based Health Care.
ALBUQUERQUE -- Physicians need to stake a claim on some Internet bandwidth to avoid being left behind as medicine migrates from the Industrial Age into the Information Age of health care.
So far, patients are well ahead of their physicians in using new online technologies. Patients now have access to more than 100,000 Web sites that provide health care information, Dr. Tom Ferguson said at a conference on patient education sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Increasingly, patients are using such tools to take responsibility for their own primary care. Many physicians report that pa tients routinely come to office visits armed with medical information from the Internet, said Dr. Ferguson of the department of health informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, and editor and publisher of the Ferguson Report, a newsletter about health care computing (www.fergusonreport.com).
The most innovative work in the online health field is being done by Net-savvy entrepreneurs, online support communities, and a few pioneering health professionals, Dr. Ferguson said.
He outlined 10 steps for physicians who want to get started and avoid being left behind in the Internet revolution.
* Jump into the Net. Sooner or later, you'll need to offer patients online information and services.
* Get comfortable with the medium. Spend time surfing Web links in your areas of interest. Do some online shopping.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Prepare to Move to Internet-Based Health Care.