title: Cost-effective clinical uses of wide-area networks: electronic mail as telemedicine.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Group, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Worth
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Patrick
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Klimczak
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Reid
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics