WebCriteria rating of Internet Health Care: Providers
Report on the user experience and accessibility of ten internet health care industry web sites based on the Max Model described in the Jul 1 2000 essay. 

NGI, Internet2: The information super duper highway
Two projects are under way to build a higher-speed Internet that could make the technology far more useful for patient care.

dot COM Sense from The American Psychological Association
Discusses common sense ways to protect your privacy and assess on-line mental health information for credibility and accuracy.

From Doc-Providers to Coach-Consultants: Type 1 Vs. Type 2 Provider-Patient Relationships
Type 1 patient-provider e-mail occurs between a patient and a health professional when no previous clinic-based relationship exists. Type 2 e-mail is that which occurs between patients and medical professionals with whom they have a preexisting clinic-based relationship. 

State of Patient-Provider Connectivity
The overall sophistication among hospitals and physician group web sites doesn't come close to the three case examples described in this report.

Readability Testing Health Information
This article suggests steps to creating a meaningful readability score. It reviews the origins and purposes nine computerized and hand-calculated readability formulas.

The Network is the User Experience: Microsoft's .NET Announcement
Jakob Neilson discusses Microsoft's new dotNet strategy in terms of how it might affect user interfaces. It addresses many of the problems that we have been struggling with in healthcare. 

CELERA GENOMICS Completes the First Assembly of the Human Genome
Assembled Genome Has 3.12 Billion Base Pairs

Ó 2000 Dean F. Sittig

Informatics-Review > Vol. 3 No. 13 - Ju1 1 2000

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