PT News: Patients Comfortable With Role of Computers in Health Care and Rehab

Patients say that they not only want computers to bring them customized medical information, they fully expect that in the future they will be able to rely on electronic technology for many routine medical issues [including pt issues], says a research team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).

The qualitative study, which is published in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that patients want full access to all of their medical records, are willing to make some privacy concessions in the interest of making their medical records completely transparent, and that, going forward, fully expect that computers will play a major role in their medical care, possibly substituting for face-to-face physician [and physical therapy] visits.

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