Thursday, October 30, 2008

Could Anger at the System Bring You and Your Doc Together Online?

By Scott Mowbray
Patients and health-care providers are all over the Internet: Patients talk to each other and organize into disease-specific networks, while HMOs build websites that allow members to check billing, look up doctors, and sometimes upload medical test results and other data.
According to Web observer Clay Shirky, however, there’s a huge divide between patients and the medical system online, in part because Big Medicine is afraid of the new power of patients in a traditionally closed, top-down world.
That will change, Shirky predicts, and anger among doctors may accelerate the process. Read More


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