---
title: "Are You Impatient for Doctor-Patient Email?"
description: "Alicia Chang’s story on doctor-patient email has generated quite a bit of coverage and comment across the Web. Secure email is just one facet of e-health, of course. For more discussion of technology’s role in health care, check out these recent essays posted on some influential blogs: Realizing the Power of PHRs Ending Secrecy: Physician […]"
date: "2008-04-23"
authors:
  - name: "Susannah Fox"
    job_title: "Former Researcher"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/susannah-fox/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2008/04/23/are-you-impatient-for-doctor-patient-email/"
categories:
  - "Email"
  - "Health Care"
  - "Health Policy"
  - "Medicine & Health"
  - "Online Search"
tags:
  - "Email"
---

# Are You Impatient for Doctor-Patient Email?

Alicia Chang's story on doctor-patient email has generated quite a bit of coverage and comment across the Web.

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Secure email is just one facet of e-health, of course. For more discussion of technology's role in health care, check out these recent essays posted on some influential blogs:

Realizing the Power of PHRs

[Ending Secrecy: Physician Makes Case for Full Disclosure of Health Records](http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/04/16/871)

[Millennial Health Care Delivery](http://crossoverhealth.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/millennial-health-care-delivery/)

Mobile Health Stuff, Available Now

[Can We Trust Google With Our Medical Records?](http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/can-we-trust-google-with-our-medical-records/)