Trading e-mails with patients is easier than playing phone tag, and you may even get paid for it.

Think communicating with patients online is risky? One risk-minded malpractice carrier will lower your bill if you do.

Some efforts by hospitals and doctors to share clinical data electronically on a regional basis have floundered. Not in Indiana.

Women who read online reminders to get a mammogram are 68 percent more likely to do so than women who ignore them, according to a study conducted by the parent company of insurer UnitedHealthcare.

You normally can't charge insurers for phone care. However, if you belong to the Cigna and Aetna networks, there's a good chance you can now bill these insurers for treating their patients via the web.

Poll after poll shows that patients want an online relationship with doctors, but that doctors aren't obliging. The latest one from Harris Interactive is no exception.

Insurers are finally reimbursing for e-mails with patients, but physicians are worried about losing office visits.

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E-mail presents challenges, but it will get easier as piecemeal solutions give way to local health data networks.