Burns T C, Rashid S
Libra Information Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Top Health Inf Manage. 2001 May;21(4):63-9.
Women's College Hospital (WCH), Toronto, Canada, embarked on a review of 5 years of Web-based e-mail communications to address broad issues of managerial policy and procedure as related to the institution's expanding role in Web-based communication. The hospital looked at who was sending messages, why they were communicating, and how the institution should respond to the new demands placed on them by virtual communicators. The article provides a brief discussion of the results of the review and points out that attention must be given to a broad range of organizational challenges and opportunities posed by such communications. Suggestions related to how health care organizations may respond better to and serve their virtual audiences are offered.
加拿大多伦多女子学院医院(WCH)对5年来基于网络的电子邮件通信进行了审查,以解决与该机构在网络通信中不断扩大的作用相关的管理政策和程序的广泛问题。该医院研究了是谁在发送信息、他们通信的原因以及机构应如何应对虚拟通信者对其提出的新要求。本文简要讨论了审查结果,并指出必须关注此类通信带来的广泛组织挑战和机遇。文中还给出了有关医疗保健机构如何更好地回应和服务其虚拟受众的建议。