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Title: Health Care: Using the Internet to Connect Doctors and Patients

Author: Schueler, Kirk Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Benefits & Compensation Solutions, v28 n7 p20(1) Publication Date: Mar 2004
  ISSN: 1069-1707
URL of Publication: http://www.bcsolutionsmag.com

If patients, their employers, and health plans want scheduling physician visits and receiving physician communication via the Internet to be the standard practice, they need to demand such a process be put into place and then use it and drive up demand. The service to request information from a physician any time of day or night through the Internet already has proper encryption and other HIPAA-compliant security-related processes and technologies in place. The value of this service is that a high number of in-office visits that do not require in-person examination would be replaced by Web-based communication. In order for this service to be valuable, the physician-patient relationship must be established and real-time access to that patient's medical records must be readily available. Upon receiving the patient's request, physicians can determine whether the patient needs to come in or whether they can prescribe appropriate information and other important links over the Internet. Employers and health plans can participate by encouraging employees to use such a service via incentives.

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