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AAP Grand Rounds 7:10-11 (2002)
© 2002 American Academy of Pediatrics

Information Technology for Patients and Families:The Future Is Now

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Patients and families may be empowered by enhancing their ability to understand and influence their health status. The authors, from the University of Iowa, hypothesize that the keystone of empowerment is information and that information sharing can improve the care of children and families. More than half of internet users obtain health information via the Web¹ and two-thirds of patients in a specialty clinic indicated they plan to use the Web as a medical information source.² Information technology influences the relationship between physician and patient as well as the patient’s understanding of his or her health care.

This article discusses examples of information technologies that utilize . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Beverly P. Wood, MD, MSc, FAAP

Pediatric Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA