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Introduction:
In less than twenty years, Internet has developed to become accessible
from
any place of the planet and is involved gradually in the environment
of
each one, allowing a new form of communication, distancies are virtualy
shorter.
In the medical field, it seems to exist an attraction and a utility of
this
new technological means.
After a historical background on the development of Internet and its
various procedure, we will expose an investigation carried out near the
general practitioners of the Marne relating into "the impact of
Internet to
the general medicine".
Then, we will discuss the limits of this system and the improvements
to
bring in order to make of it a tool of communication
safe for the doctors'informations.
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Conclusion:
Internet, last media appeared at the end of the Eighties, place at our
disposal an access potentially unlimited to information, in particular
in
the field of medicine. It is also a very powerful tool of communication
rapid and international thanks to the electronic mail.
We wanted to study his impact on the general medicine by carrying out
an investigation near the doctors of the Marne. We collected 200
questionnaires out of 420 envoys and highlighted that the majority of
the doctors are computerized and have an access to Internet. The
majority uses it to get information and to be formed and in is overall
satisfied. They are 24% to think that that will change the practice of
the
general medicine. They expect from it a development of the
communications between the hospital, the fellow-members specialized
and the fellow-members general practitioners, who they would wish
simplified and protected.
Internet indeed presents unquestionable limits primarily related on the
medical data security and the reliability of information available on
the
Net.
We think that these limits will be brought to attenuate in the years
to
come with in particular the development from the labels of
confidence, and of the systems of encoding. The generalization of the
networks of care should also have a beneficial contribution.
However, this powerful media is only one tool for the
general practitioner in his exercise and will not replace the clinical
examination, nor the relation of confidence which is established
between the doctor and the patient by a direct and necessary contact
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