Canada. The EMR faces many challenges beyond the high cost of implementation and
maintenance. On a technical level, new software may need to “read” old databases, and this …

518 JAMC• 22 FÉVR. 2000; 162 (4) formed strategic alliances with general medical journals
to provide expert commentaries in those publications. Readers were well served by these …

Because of a burgeoning Internet and increasing number of online electronic Journals, the
way in which psychiatric practitioners are educated is changing. To better characterize these …

This research develops a theory of Internet-based information intermediation, termed
electronic information intermediation (EII). Using information-processing theory, the nature …

Medical and health sciences journals are in the midst of a major skirmish, or perhaps a
revolution. Senior and well-published authors, along with their younger colleagues, are at …

Few physicians choose to deliver medicine as a monologue. Most of us look forward to and
rely on dialogue with our colleagues to validate, illuminate and occasionally amuse us. It is …

Editorial Page 1 Editorial Français à la page suivante The incursions of new technologies into
medical publishing have prompted an interesting tussle between optimists who want to …

“Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar eats you.” 1 We're not quite sure what
this means, but we do know that replacing the word “bar” with “Web” makes us feel uneasy. It …

RESULTS Comparisons of findings by two-tailed, paired t-tests show an average 14.0%
19.0% decrease over the last 5 years in use of print media and a 16.2%+/-15.7% increase …

The incursions of new technologies into medical publishing have prompted an interesting
tussle between optimists who want to embrace the future before it devours them and …