Increasing email consultations may marginalise more people

Email consultations in health care: 1--scope and effectiveness.

Email consultations in health care: 2--acceptability and safe application.

Email may have an important role in augmenting and facilitating communication between patients and healthcare professionals. In this article we summarise the evidence describing public and professional attitudes to using email in routine clinical care and explore issues relating to ensuring such use is safe. Specifically, we aim to answer three questions: x How acceptable is email consulting to...

Semantic Email Addressing: Sending Email to People, Not Strings

In this document, we explore how semantic technologies can be brought to email addressing. We introduce the notion of semantic email addressing (SEA). SEA allows emails to be sent to a semantically specified recipient of group of recipients, which may be dynamically changing over time. We give some applications of SEA and describe our prototype imple-

Voice Based Email for Blind People

The advancement in computer based accessible systems has opened up many avenues for the visually impaired across a wide majority of the globe. Audio feedback based virtual environment like, the screen readers have helped blind people to access internet applications immensely. However, a large section of visually impaired people in different countries, in particular, the Indian sub-continent cou...

Recordings or summaries of consultations for people with cancer.

OBJECTIVES Many people find it difficult to remember information provided during medical consultations. One way of improving this may be to provide a record of the conversation. This review examined the effects of providing recordings or summaries of their consultations to people with cancer and their families. SEARCH STRATEGY The following sources were searched: Cochrane Library (to issue 1 ...