Tag: access to health care

Introduction: In the absence of statistics demonstrating that patients, particularly older persons, use information technology, insurers, institutional, and independent health-care providers have increased their use of websites for patient communication (IT). The FACETS (Functional Assessment of Currently Employed Technology Scale) was created to measure the frequency of internet and...

Medicare, commercial insurers, and health care professionals have increasingly depended on websites and IT to connect with patients in the absence of statistics demonstrating that older persons use information technology (IT) to communicate with health care providers or insurers. The FACETS (Functional Assessment of Currently Employed Technology Scale) assesses...