The Future of Health Care: Using the Internet to Deliver Health Interventions

Ritterband, Lee and Frances Thorndike.  "The Future of Health Care: Using the Internet to Deliver Health Interventions." The Huffington Post, September 19, 2012.
 
From the blog:  "The best Internet interventions are sophisticated, structured, tailored, behavior treatment programs that you can log onto and get the same kind of personalized expert care very few people around the country are currently able to receive. These systems employ all the advantages of the Internet -- graphics, animations, audio, video -- and custom-tailor your intervention based on algorithms created and empirically validated in randomized clinical trials. Many are fully automated, requiring no human support, dramatically reducing costs. Some are supported with minimal clinician contact (maybe a personalized email or phone call). It's obviously not face-to-face care, but it's been shown to be almost, if not as good as, face-to-face treatment for many kinds of problems." Read more