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This is a 3 page paper that explores electronic communications in health care. The benefits and challenges of email and electronic medical records are explored. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Electronic Communication and its Implications for Health Care ,
1/2011 --properly! 1) What are the benefits and challenges of one technologically based communication modality-e-mail, a web-based forum, and so forth- involving
patients and health care providers? As information technology becomes a more deeply ingrained aspect of 21st century industry, few are the industries which will escape its influence. The health
care industry in particular seems poised to be inundated by a flood of digital technologies, all of which have the capacity to provide both benefits and challenges to the health
care professional. Electronic communication modalities such as email are among the electronic innovations most likely to severely impact how health care organizations are administrated. This was borne out in a
recent study on the value of email to health care organizations. The study assessed some 3000 messages that were sent to two health care organizations employing just under 100 physicians
(White et al., 2004). The study was intended to explore whether or not physician resistance to email as a form of communication on the assumption that it would provide the
potential for compromising sensitive information were well-founded or not. The results showed that some 41% of the emails dealt with information updates, while 24% addressed requests for prescription renewals, and
10-13% were simple requests for basic medical information (White et al., 2004). Only 5% contained some kind of sensitive information, suggesting that email does not pose all that great of
a risk (at least in this capacity) (White et al., 2004). For the most part, it seems as if email is used to access information by patients in situations when
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