Survey answers from 1,750 primary care physicians, pediatricians, obstetrician-gynecologists and dermatologists were included in the Researchers Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association study. Researchers found that 81 percent of physicians had used a portable device to access the Internet in the previous six months, and 13 percent said they had written blog posts. Other technology use areas surveyed included social networking websites (59 percent), email communication with patients (49 percent), podcasts (41 percent), widgets (22 percent) and RSS feeds (19 percent).
A statistical analysis found that demographic characteristics of physicians, rather than practice-related characteristics, were “more consistent predictors of physician use” of the technologies studied, researchers said.
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