A study on the online medical consulting websites based on the personal computer side
10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20200120-00050
- VernacularTitle:基于个人电脑端的在线问诊网站服务内容及服务提供者的现状调查
- Author:
Wei ZHANG
1
;
Jiangjie ZHOU
;
Guozhen LIU
;
Shengfeng WANG
;
Liming LI
Author Information
1. 北京大学公共卫生学院流行病与卫生统计学系 100191
- Keywords:
Online medical consulting;
Internet medical;
Personal computer;
Service content;
Service provider
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2021;42(2):303-308
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Online medical consulting, acting as the primary type of Internet medical market, has been developing dramatically in the past ten years and begins to take shape. This study collected available information to describe service content status and service provider for online medical consulting websites. The current online medical consulting sites are mainly comprehensive medical consultation websites. The most common consulting provision from is combining graphics and text, which might not meet users' primary demand. The registered physicians are mostly the ones with junior position and work in the eastern and south-central parts of China. Activities of the registered physicians vary across the departments, but with extremely low initiatives.
