The benefits and dangers of electronic specialty consultation in person-centered medicine

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Published: Sep 11, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v2i3.267
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Benefits dangers electronic speciality consultation person-centered medicine

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C. Robert Cloninger
Sansone Family Center for Well-Being at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Abstract

The Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic has carried out an informative study of electronic consultations (eConsults) of specialists by primary care physicians in their integrated healthcare network, as reported in two papers in this issue [1,2]. The Mayo Clinic provides an excellent setting to evaluate the benefits and dangers of eConsults, because of its dedication to patient-centered care and because its primary care providers and specialists share a common electronic medical record (EMR) within a system of salaried employees.

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Issue
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2012): September
Section
Clinical and Electronic Communication
Author Biography

C. Robert Cloninger, Sansone Family Center for Well-Being at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Prof Cloninger is Wallace and Lucille Renard Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology and Genetics, and Director of the Sansone Family Center for Well-Being at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He is also Scientific Director of the Anthropedia Institute Dr. Cloninger received his B.A. with High Honors and Special Honors in Philosophy, Psychology, and Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, 1966.  He received his M.D. from Washington University in 1970 and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Umea, Sweden in 1983.  He has published 10 books and more than 400 articles in psychiatry, psychology, and genetics.   His recent books include the Origins of Cooperation and Altruism by Springer, Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being by Oxford University Press, and Personality and Psychopathology by American Psychiatric Press.  Among his many awards, Dr. Cloninger has received the American Psychiatric Association’s Adolf Meyer Award (1993) and Judd Marmor Award (2009), and lifetime achievement awards from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (2000) and the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (2003).  He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the APA, a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.  The Institute of Scientific Information ranks him among the most highly cited psychiatrists and psychologists in the world. His personality inventories have been used in more than 4000 peer-reviewed publications.

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