title: Oral medicine and oral pathology--the impact of electronic information.
abstract: This paper discusses recent advances in electronic information, with particular reference to Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology. Email has become the norm for professional communication; Medline is freely accessible; content alerts can be established to alert the subscriber to new publications; evidence-based practice is emerging with the development of the Cochrane library and numerous other databases are also available for a variety of purposes. Conferences are moving to use electronic information as the medium for dissemination of proceedings. Bulletin boards provide a forum for interchange of ideas and opinions in both Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology and electronic data transfer can be used in various applications in telemedicine, telepathology and teleradiology. Without doubt these mechanisms will be further developed and refined in the present century.
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D019992:Databases as Topic; D034742:Electronic Mail; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020407:Internet; D016239:MEDLINE; D008490:Medical Informatics; D019242:Oral Medicine; D010339:Pathology, Oral; D017216:Telemedicine