E-BUSINESS

An interesting perspective on physician use of online medical content to inform medical decision-making in order to provide high quality patient care.

“Every day, in hospitals and physicians’ offices across America and increasingly around the world, medical practitioners are doing something revolutionary: They are turning to the Internet for information to enable them to make more informed decisions for their patients.”

Watch streaming video webcast or read transcription at
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/548888

At www.eCommunity.com/health we offer a health information library that provides health information for the consumer. The library comes from a third-party provider and most content is reviewed and updated quarterly. Topics are grouped into adult and pediatric health, ranging from allergies to women’s health and everything in between.

Questions: In the future will we need to provide physicians and caregivers within our hospitals with online health information to be used for medical decision-making? Will we do this in an effort to control the content and possible ramifications of finding and relaying inaccurate information to patients? How will newcomer health information Web sites geared toward a physician audience be screened or deemed reputable?