From the article: Is your doctor a technophobe? Increasingly, the answer may
be no. There's a stereotype that says doctors shun technology that might
threaten patients' privacy and their own pocketbooks. But a new breed of physicians
is texting health messages to patients, tracking disease trends on Twitter,
identifying medical problems on Facebook pages and communicating with patients
through email.
So far, those numbers are small. Many doctors still cling to pen and paper, and
are most comfortable using e-technology to communicate with each other - not
with patients. But from the nation's top public health agency, to medical
clinics in the heartland, some physicians realize patients want more than a
15-minute office visit and callback at the end of the day."