>From the Wisdom list, A.Booth wrote:

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> Healthy rise in UK doctors online
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> Welcome to another weekly edition of Nua Internet Surveys. This newsletter
> provides information on surveys and reports on the Internet, and is brought
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> The results of a study released this week found that the amount of GPs in
> Britain going online is increasing dramatically. The Internet represents
> the perfect forum for doctors and medical specialists to liaise with each
> other across geographic boundaries. The ability to share information and
> expertise online is  attracting a growing number of doctors and medical
> organisations.
>
> Recent research by NOP has found that among British GPs the primary
> motivation for going online is to access the most recent clinical
> information  available. 81 percent of GPs said they had been online in the
> previous four weeks and had spent an average of half an hour visiting sites
> such as the British Medical Journal and Medline.
>
> 52 percent of GPs said they had never visited online pharmacies, which
> implies that more than half of all GPs using the Net are doing so
> foreducational purposes. 26 percent of those who had visited online
> pharmacies said they did so out of curiousity.
>
> Of Britain's approximately 5,400 GPs now online, the majority use the
> Internet to communicate to patients and to learn the latest information in
> the medical world. Some doctors are receiving up to 40 emails a day from
> patients.
>
> The survey found that currently 15 percent of all GPs in Britain are online
> and they send an average of three emails per week. 46 percent use email to
> obtain information from patients and 41 percent said they participate in
> discussion groups.
>
> The main advantages of the Internet for the medical world is the easy
> access to vast vaults of information which change on a regular basis.
>
> Meanwhile in the US, doctors are becoming concerned about privacy in
> relation to medical records and while the monetary return on the sale of
> medical records is not high, there is a real threat of privacy invasion.
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Once again I would like to ask who they have consulted and how has it gone up,
from which figures?

The hype about the net continues to self delude I feel.

Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
Informatics Tutor
Sheffield





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