Online Communication Between Doctors and Patients in Europe: Status and Perspectives

• Published in: Journal of medical Internet research Vol. 12; no. 2; p. e20
• Main Authors: Santana, Silvina, Lausen, Berthold, Bujnowska-Fedak, Maria, Chronaki, Catherine, Kummervold, Per Egil, Rasmussen, Janne, Sorensen, Tove
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor 15.06.2010; Gunther Eysenbach; JMIR Publications
• Subjects: Appointments and Schedules; Communication; Computer mediated communication; Computerized physician order entry; Consumers; Doctors; Electronic health records; Electronic Health Records - utilization; Electronic Mail; Electronic Prescribing - statistics & numerical data; Email; Europe; Family physicians; Forecasting; Health; Health education; Health information; Health professionals; Health Services Accessibility - trends; Health status; Humans; Internet; Internet - trends; Internet - utilization; Legislation; Logistic Models; Medical personnel; Original Paper; Patient communication; Patients; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Policy analysis; Polls & surveys; Population Surveillance; Prescriptions; Primary care; Professionals; Regression analysis; Sampling Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Telemedicine; Trends; Web portals; Europe; Greece; Latvia; Norway; Denmark; Poland; Portugal; Germany

Use of the Internet for health purposes is steadily increasing in Europe, while the eHealth market is still a niche. Online communication between doctor and patient is one aspect of eHealth with potentially great impact on the use of health systems, patient-doctor roles and relations and individuals...