Few Patients Use or Have Access to On-Line Services for Communicating With Their Doctors, but Most Would Like to

September 22, 2006 Few Patients Use or Have Access to On-Line Services for Communicating With Their Doctors The on-line poll of 2,624 adults found that a majority of Americans would like to have access to on-line services for communicating with physicians and would like to use other electronic health care services as well. For example, 74% would like to use email to communicate directly with their doctor, and 67% would like to receive the results of diagnostic tests via email. However, three-quarters of respondents said such services aren't available to them. Only two percent . . .