CHAPTER 3
Online Health Information Seeking: Access and Digital Equity Considerations
Fay Cobb Payton and Joseph Tan
Editor’s Note: Readers of this health management information systems text should be aware of the growing force that the Internet has exerted on the masses, in particular, how it affects health consumers in term of their health information searches. Apparently, the Internet is beginning to change the way medicine is going to be practiced as more and more computer-literate health consumers, armed with the latest research information on their particular illnesses, shop around for the best doctors. This chapter prepares the readers to predict the next major HMIS evolution. Legacy systems used in healthcare services organizations for ...
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