Doctors as Users of "New Media"

KraftyLibrarian writes about a survey of physicians’ use of new technology:

“142,000 physicians report they use the Internet during patient consultations

610,000 physicians report using search engines to find medical information online.

333,000 physicians use some type of mobile device (PDA, smartphone, tablet PC)

40% of those surveyed reported using an iPod or another MP3 player

487,000 physicians are users of “new media” (streaming video, downloadable audio content, blogs)

According to a USA Today article from March 2005 there are about 800,000 active physicians in the United States. So a majority of our users (76%) use search engines to find medical information online.”

Kevin and I have described how some doctors use Google before.

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