Secure web messaging in a pediatric chronic care clinic: A slow takeoff of "kids' airmail"

Pediatrics

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Hsiao, Allen L ^a,b   Bazzy Asaad, Alia ^a   Tolomeo, Concettina ^a   Edmonds, Diana ^a   Belton, Beverly ^b   Benin, Andrea L ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

E mail; E messaging; Electronic mail; Pediatric; Pediatric asthma; Portal; Respiratory medicine; Secure electronic messaging; Web messaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; E-MAIL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEPHONE;

CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HUMANS; INTERNET; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79551511767     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-1086     Document Type: Article

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