Email saves - not wastes - doctors' time

Patients whose physicians use email tend to come in for fewer office visits, writes CanadianEMR about recent research. In other words, all those concerns that email would eat up doctors' time were unfounded - in fact, email use appears to save time.

Dr Alan Brookstone, who runs the physician-discussion website CanadianEMR, admits that most Canadian doctors are also concerned about other email-related issues, including privacy and security problems and the absence of a public-insurance remuneration model.

I wrote an article about those issues in the June 30 issue of NRM.

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