“Disparities in access to technology have inhibited adoption of Internet-based medical information, particularly among minority populations, according to recent findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
“While a lot has been written about the ‘digital divide,’ few empiric data have been available to quantify it,” David W. Bates, MD, MSc, of the division of general internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said in an interview. “We measured how many patients adopted a patient portal within a large network and assessed the magnitude of the digital divide.”
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Ashley DeNyse, EndocrineToday, 20 April 2011
Abstract (Yamin 2011)
