Surveys of Physicians and Electronic Health Information
Source:
The New England Journal of Medicine (by Bradford W. Hesse, PhD, Richard P. Moser, PhD, and Lila J. Rutten, PhD, MPH)
- A Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) was launched by the National Cancer Institute in 2001 to provide evidence for the practice and policy of electronically accessible health information in clinical care. The HINTS program provides data every 2 years from a national sample of US adults 18 years of age or older.
- The findings show that accessing health information online does not reduce trust in physicians and that trust may be increasing as consumers rely on their physicians to interpret online information. The use of the Internet for patients to communicate with their doctors is showing a small increase over time.
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