April 11, 2003
Ball State Tests System for Answering Students' Health Questions Online
Students who call the health center at Ball State University will soon find their questions answered in more graphic detail than they are accustomed to. Instead of asking a patient to describe a rash over the telephone, a nurse might ask the patient to look at his or her computer screen: Does the rash have oozing pustules, like the picture on the left? Or is it red and itchy, like the one on the right?
The clinic is testing a system that will allow nurses and patients to interact not
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