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Abstract

Grant Number:	5R01LM008255-02
Project Title:	Cybermedicine for the Patient and Physician

PI Information:	Name	Email	Title
	SLACK, WARNER V.	wslack@bidmc.harvard.edu	PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE

Abstract: DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this study--to help patients and their physicians, working together, to improve the quality of medical care--is four fold: first, to deliver to patients, in their homes over the Internet, interactive interviews that obtain their medical histories and offer health-related information and suggestions; second, to use these interviews to facilitate communication between patient and physician; third, to incorporate the results of these interviews into a Web-based electronic medical record, developed jointly by patient and physician and readily accessible both to the physician, in the clinic, and to the patient, in the home, over a protected Web-site; and fourth, to conduct a randomized, controlled clinical trial to ascertain the effect of the interviews on the number of office visits by patients, the time per visit, the number of telephone calls and e-mail messages between patients and physicians, the completeness of patients' problem lists, the adherence by patients to medication regimens, and the assessments by patients and physicians of their office visits, as well as to ascertain the satisfaction of patients and physicians with the computer interviews. The long-range goal of this project is to provide, for use both locally and in places of export, economically feasible, interactive, computer-based, health-related interviews that have been demonstrated by experimental trials to be of benefit both to patients and their physicians. (By Cybermedicine, we mean use of computing to enhance communication in health care.)

Public Health Relevance:
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Thesaurus Terms:
automated health care system, automated medical record system, computer assisted patient care, health care quality, patient care management, patient care personnel relations, primary care physician
Internet, clinical trial, data collection methodology /evaluation, health care service evaluation, health care service utilization, interview, longitudinal human study, questionnaire, therapy compliance
behavioral /social science research tag, clinical research, health services research tag, human subject, patient oriented research

Institution:	BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER
	330 BROOKLINE AVENUE, BR 264
	BOSTON, MA 02215
Fiscal Year:	2006
Department:
Project Start:	01-FEB-2005
Project End:	31-JAN-2008
ICD:	NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
IRG:	BLR

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