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Yearb Med Inform 2000; 09(01): 71-78
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1637944
Review Paper
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Patient-Computer Dialogue: A Review[1],[2]

W.V. Slack
1   Division of Clinical Computing, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Center for Clinical Computing, Boston, MA, USA
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Abstract

Since the first study of communication between patient and computer was performed at the University of Wisconsin in 1965, programs for patient-computer dialogue have been developed, implemented, and studied in numerous settings in the United States and abroad, and the results have been encouraging. This review presents a brief history of patient-computer dialogue together with suggested guidelines for programs in the future.

Keywords

cybermedicine - patient-computer dialogue - computers - interviews - medical history taking - user-computer interface - self-care - patient power - patient satisfaction

1 Supported in part by research funds from the Center for Clinical Computing.


2 Portions of this manuscript were adapted from Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Health Care (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997), with the permission of the publisher.


 

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