Worth E R, Patrick T B, Klimczak J C, Reid J C
Medical Informatics Group, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1995:814-8.
Electronic mail (E-mail) is widely used as a means of communication in the medical community. E-mail is clearly inexpensive when compared to two-way, fully interactive, real-time, video telemedicine. By content analysis of 200 consecutive messages, we show E-mail to be a low-cost use of computer networks, supporting a wide range of physician decision-making.