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KMID : 0614720020450010004
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Journal of Korean Medical Association
2002 Volume.45 No. 1 p.4 ~ p.16
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E-health and Internet in Medicine-A Strategic Perspective
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Abstract
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The Internet is becoming increasingly important and essential in medicine. The number of health-related web sites and medical portal sites is rising exponentially in recent years. Now, ensuring that the Internet becomes a suitable and comfortable
medium
for supporting medical applications is a challenging task.
Internet in medicine has changed the health and illness behavior of e-health consumers and the traditional doctor-patient relationship. The patients now can get more health information online and take more responsibilities for their own care
(consumer
empowerment). E-communication using e-mails between doctors and patients has become popular, but this kind of practice needs a proper standard guideline. Implementation of point-of-care(telemedicine), e-consultation and Internet prescription
evokes
ethical, medicolegal, and social issues and threatens the treaditional medical practice.
It is highly recommended that the Korean doctors be familiar with the e-health and e-medicine.
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