Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Monday, August 27, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001082701t.htm

Specialists at Medical Schools Test Online Consulting
By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

If a patient in Seattle or Pittsburgh wants a second opinion from a Harvard Medical School specialist, it's now available online -- for $600. Harvard physicians are entering the legally complicated but potentially lucrative business of dispensing advice over the Internet. The service was started over the summer by Partners HealthCare System, which includes several hospitals that serve as Harvard teaching affiliates. The plan allows patients in 33 states to have their cases reviewed by some of the nation's most renowned specialists. But the patients must begin by consulting their own local doctors....

 



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