<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Advanced information technologies have entered all spheres of human activities. In healthcare, this happens much too fast and encompasses all its branches. How does the Internet form the relationship between patients and medical staff? What information do patients seek and how do they get it? What problems arise during the communication process via new means? How can we describe an e-patient? How does the Internet model the doctor-patient relationship in case of cancer, one of the most dramatic diseases? Are students prepared to face an e-patient and how are they trained to do it? What is to be done to optimize internet communication between patients and health providers? This review analyzes information on these issues and outlines some opportunities for solving problems arising against the background of IT use in health care.</p></abstract>

Advanced information technologies have entered all spheres of human activities. In healthcare, this happens much too fast and encompasses all its branches. How does the Internet form the relationship between patients and medical staff? What information do patients seek and how do they get it? What problems arise during the communication process via new means? How can we describe an e-patient? How does the Internet model the doctor-patient relationship in case of cancer, one of the most dramatic diseases? Are students prepared to face an e-patient and how are they trained to do it? What is to be done to optimize internet communication between patients and health providers? This review analyzes information on these issues and outlines some opportunities for solving problems arising against the background of IT use in health care.

The E-Patient

Department of Propaedeutics of Surgical Diseases

Department of Propedeutics of Surgical Diseases

Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Research

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Advanced information technologies have entered all spheres of human activities. In healthcare, this happens much too fast and encompasses all its branches. How...

The E-Patient

Publicado en línea: 30 jun 2018

Páginas: 79 - 86

Recibido: 23 jun 2017

Aceptado: 27 feb 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbcr-2017-0013

Palabras clave
e-patient, e-health, e-medicine

© 2017 Ljubomir S. Kovachev et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The E-Patient

Publicado en línea: 30 jun 2018

Páginas: 79 - 86

Recibido: 23 jun 2017

Aceptado: 27 feb 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbcr-2017-0013

Palabras clavee-patient, e-health, e-medicine

© 2017 Ljubomir S. Kovachev et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
e-patient, e-health, e-medicine