Current Reviews in Clinical Informatics: Vol 3 No 16

Online medical records seen empowering patients  

In a new program designed to give patients more control -
one that worries some doctors - the CareGroup hospital
and doctors network soon will roll out one of the
country's first interactive Internet medical-records Web
sites to as many as 1,000 doctors and 700,000 patients.



Newt Gingrich's High tech cure for medical mistakes

A first step: Congress should pass a bill requiring that within three years every doctor's prescription and every patient's record be computerized, with appropriate privacy safeguards.

 

On the Net, RX-rated beats X-rated
Not sure yet whether a web presence is necessary for a single physician or a medical center? Check out the results of this enlightening study of consumer web behavior.

Community Health Status Indicators Project 
In response to requests for health assessment information at the local level, the Health Resources Services Administration has funded a project to publish reports for all 3,082 U.S. counties. 

Planning a Web site? Look before you link
Innocuous as they may seem, links from your Web site to other Web sites may invite scrutiny from the federal fraud-and-abuse police. How do you make sure your links  pass muster?

Biomedical and Nursing Knowledge Resources on the Internet 
Knowledge resources in the health sciences are a relatively recent development. They have grown largely in the context of health /medical informatics and the computing environment. Thus, the Internet has been, and will continue to be, a natural home for their deployment.

 

Other issues from Volume 3 -- 1999

No. 1 -- Jan 1

No. 5 -- Mar 1

No. 9 --- May 1

No. 13 -- Jul 1

No. 17 -- Sep 1

No. 21 -- Nov 1

No. 2 -- Jan 15

No. 6 -- Mar 15

No. 10 -- May 15

No. 14 -- Jul 15

No. 18 -- Sep 15

No. 22 -- Nov 15

No. 3 -- Feb 1

No. 7 -- Apr 1

No. 11 -- Jun 1

No. 15 -- Aug 1

No. 19 -- Oct 1

No. 23 -- Dec 1

No. 4 -- Feb 15

No. 8 -- Apr 15

No. 12 -- Jun 15

No. 16 -- Aug 15

No. 20 -- Oct 15

No. 24 -- Dec 15

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