Psychiatric Times has a recent article on using the Internet to connect with patients.
The authors bring up a whole group of points that I agree with:
Email is already verging on obsolescence for people under 30
The patients under 30 don’t understand why anyone providing a service wouldn’t answer text messages
Psychiatrists tend to be late-adopters of technology
Email [...]
I’ve been playing with Google Wave for a few days now, and I’m really intrigued with the future possibilities for using it in conjunction with telepsychiatry.
It’s hard to explain exactly what Google Wave is, but I like Google’s description that it’s “what email might look like if we invented it today.” To me, it’s email, [...]
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