THE COMPARISON BETWEEN PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN TERMS OF ONLINE HEALTH SERVICES IN TURKEY
TÜRKİYE’DEKİ KAMU, ÜNİVERSİTE VE ÖZEL HASTANELERİN WEB ÜZERİNDEN ONLİNE SAĞLIK HİZMETLERİ SUNUMUNUN KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI

Author : Abdulkadir ÖZDEMİR -- Selçuk BAKAN - Abdullah NARALAN
Number of pages : 1299-1311

Abstract

Nowadays, some opportunities such as accessing test results, making appointment for treatment, making investigation for selection of doctors or hospitals, informing advices or complains are some simple operations, and contacting with doctors for consultation encourage people to use internet. In this research, a comparison of providing online health services between public, university and private hospitals have been made in terms of presenting these services. This study has been carried out as access and investigation of websites between April and July 2011. More than 350 hospitals including public, university, and private hospitals which are operating currently in the city Centre in Turkey have been included to this research. Hospitals without websites have been excluded. The content of websites and the variety of health services has been examined and links in websites has been checked that whether it works properly. Hospitals will provide presenting of health services online and taking advantage of these services without going to hospitals for people who have to go there personally. This kind of services provides commercial advantages, because of the importance of time in these days. This study has shown that, there is a need to have a website and use it effectively for public benefit in terms of online services.

Keywords

Internet, Web Sites, Health Services

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