In a world where most people routinely e-mail friends, family and colleagues, and many exchange e-mail with teachers, newspaper columnists and even the pizza delivery guy, it's a weird fact: Most of us still don't have e-mail relationships with our doctors.For a decade, experts in medicine and technology have been saying that patient/doctor e-mailing was an obvious trend just waiting to explode. But studies show a very slow adoption of the practice: Just 8% of adults said they had received e-mail from their doctors in an online survey in 2005 by Harris Interactive for The Wall Street Journal Online.
Although 25% of doctors said they communicated online with patients in a survey last year by Manhattan Research, other studies suggest a smaller number do so regularly.
Maybe the fact that there's no code for an email encounter or instant messaging has something to do with it. Then again, perhaps it's the fact that you can't examine a patient through a computer. While this may evolve, the Doctor-Patient relationship is based on a face to face encounter.More.
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