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• AMA Guidelines for Physician-Patient Electronic Communications
  In 2000, at the request of the Young Physicians Section, the AMA Board of Trustees issued guidelines to aid physicians in communicating electronically with patients. These guidelines were updated in June 2001 and in June 2002.
• Doctoring Via Email? Will It Fly?
  Author/editor: Carol M. Ostrom
  Date: November 6, 2003
  Despite many doctors' distaste for this latest intrusive technology, however, more and more patients are communicating with their doctors by e-mail. According to a 2002 Harris Poll analysis, about 90 percent of adults already online (about 66 percent of all adults) want that access, and nearly 40 percent say they're willing to pay for it.
• Electronic Patient-Physician Communication: Problems and Promise
  Author/editor: Kenneth D. Mandl, Isaac S. Kohane, and Allan M. Brandt
  Date: September 15, 1998
  From the Annals of Internal Medicine, this paper seeks to identify the promise and pitfalls of electronic patient-physician communication before such technology becomes widely distributed.
• Email Consultations in Health Care: 1—Scope and Effectiveness
  Author/editor: Josip Car, Aziz Sheikh
  Date: August 21, 2004
  Electronic communication promises to revolutionise the delivery of health care. In the first of two articles considering the potential for email consultations, Car and Sheikh summarise the evidence about their use for preventive health care, health education, and managing non-urgent conditions.
• Email Consultations in Health Care: 2—Acceptability and Safe Application
  Author/editor: Josip Car, Aziz Sheikh
  Date: August 21, 2004
  Electronic communication promises to revolutionise the delivery of health care. In the second of two articles considering the potential for email consultations, Car and Sheikh summarise the evidence about public and professional attitudes to them and discuss how to ensure their safe use.
• e-Visits Begin To Pay Off For Physicians
  Author/editor: M.K. McGee
  Date: May 31, 2004
  Some health plans and insurers will reimburse doctors for online consultations. An article from InformationWeek.
• Guidelines for the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail With Patients
  Author/editor: Beverly Kane and Daniel Z. Sands
  Date: Jan/Feb 1998
  From the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
• Medem Corp. Online Consultation and Secure Messaging
  Online Consultation (OC) is Medem's trademarked service that allows physicians to securely communicate online with patients and receive payment for their work.
• More Insurers Reimbursing Physician Email Consultations
  Author/editor: M. Freudenheim
  Date: March 2, 2005
  A news item from iHealthBeat, quoting a story in the New York Times on the status of insurers reimbursing for email consultations.
• Online Consultation Slow to Grow
  Author/editor: Tyler Chin
  Date: July 12, 2004
  Having patients and insurers pay for e-mail contact has run into snags, with analysts citing issues from patient reluctance to pay to privacy concerns. From amednews.com
• The Changing Face of Ambulatory Medicine: Reimbursing Physicians for Computer-Based Care
  Author/editor: Mark S. Gorden and John P. DuMoulin
  Date: March, 2003
  A policy paper from the American College of Physicians. Adobe PDF
• The Doctor will e-You Now
  Author/editor: Liz Kowalczyk
  Date: May 24, 2004
  Insurers to pay physicians to answer questions over Web. Beginning in August, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Massachusetts will start paying primary care physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Caritas Christi Health Care, and Baystate Health System for "Web visits" with their patients.

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