INTERNET'S INFLUENCE ON MEDICAL SERVICES This diploma is dealing with the demand of medical servi... more INTERNET'S INFLUENCE ON MEDICAL SERVICES This diploma is dealing with the demand of medical services on the internet. In Slovenia the number of commercial health related web pages run by volunteers is growing. The web pages are reliable and take on a big part of the public medical care system. The government is working on the reorganization and digitalization of the medical system. In this diploma we have three assumptions: the visit of the current medical related web pages is growing; patients favour web communication with the medical staff because it allows them a quicker access to quality information and the medical staff does not favour web communication with patients because their work is too extensive. We assume that because of the overload of work in the hospitals they lack time for a web based medical consult. The validation of our assumptions is checked through survey and interview. We take a look into medical web sites and the patterns of the visit they get. We focus our attention on individuals, patients. The survey's and interview's results confirm our first two assumptions and discard the third one. Web communication in medicine has a lot of advantages but there is still a lot of work to be done in the Slovenian medical system before it will work efficiently.
INTERNET'S INFLUENCE ON MEDICAL SERVICES This diploma is dealing with the demand of medical servi... more INTERNET'S INFLUENCE ON MEDICAL SERVICES This diploma is dealing with the demand of medical services on the internet. In Slovenia the number of commercial health related web pages run by volunteers is growing. The web pages are reliable and take on a big part of the public medical care system. The government is working on the reorganization and digitalization of the medical system. In this diploma we have three assumptions: the visit of the current medical related web pages is growing; patients favour web communication with the medical staff because it allows them a quicker access to quality information and the medical staff does not favour web communication with patients because their work is too extensive. We assume that because of the overload of work in the hospitals they lack time for a web based medical consult. The validation of our assumptions is checked through survey and interview. We take a look into medical web sites and the patterns of the visit they get. We focus our attention on individuals, patients. The survey's and interview's results confirm our first two assumptions and discard the third one. Web communication in medicine has a lot of advantages but there is still a lot of work to be done in the Slovenian medical system before it will work efficiently.
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