J Korean Soc Med Inform.  1998 Jun;4(1):57-63.

Medical Counseling by Interact via Daily Newspaper

• Kim YB
• Hong OJ
• Han SH
• Choi KC
• Park SN
• Lee SM
• Ha KC
• La DG

Abstract

Recently the change in medical informatics enabled us to use medical information whenever we want and wherever we are. There are many homepages on the web, which provide hospital information, medical counseling. Our multimedia center began its service as a internet Hospital in MIDAS Dongailbo, one of the major daily newspaper in Korea, on March 25th, 1997. The aim of this study is to examine the content and purpose of medical counseling on the web. The subjects consisted of 1,000 counsellings which were called 'Dongailbo Internet Hospital' for March, 25th, 1997 through October 30th, 1997. Many questioners wanted to know treatment principles, to make a diagnosis, and to know specific medical knowledges. The most common questions are as follows: general and unspecified, musculoskeletal, skin, digestive, respiratory, neurological problems.

Keyword

The Internet; Medical Counseling; Computer Communication Network

MeSH Terms

Computer Communication Networks
Counseling*
Diagnosis
Internet
Korea
Medical Informatics
Multimedia
Periodicals*
Skin