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Event: Using the internet to practice medicine
02 September 2010
News > Using electronic media
Using the internet to practice medicine: Increasing efficiency, widening access, improving quality
Tuesday 21 September 2010
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE
This is an opportunity to hear from Professor Bachman, a world expert in the use of the internet in consultations with patients. The workshop will cover practical ways that the efficiency of care can be improved and will explore how this can be achieved in today's world of busy medical practice.
The content will appeal to anyone interested in maximizing the use of resources and quality of care. GP's, hospital doctors, private doctors, nurses, other therapists, patients and managers will all benefit from this workshop. Sessions include:
- How does the explosion in computer use by patients impact on the provision of healthcare?
- Case Study: Thalidomide Trust at the intersection of medicine, the internet, and the empowered patient in UK
- The Mayo study on online consultations - A demonstration and the results of a pilot study of 2531 online consultations
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Categories
- Accessibility and usability
- Design of health information
- Education and training
- Establishing and running health information services
- Evaluating the quality of health information
- Evidence for health information
- Health literacy
- Job advertisements
- Medicines information
- Patient and public involvement
- Patient experience
- PiF membership news
- Policy matters
- Producing and disseminating health information
- Shared decision making
- Sourcing health information
- Using electronic media
