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Healthcare providers and consumers - use of communication technology 2017

Willingness to use selected technologies to communicate with healthcare providers among U.S. adults as of 2017

The data displays adult Americans' attitudes towards the use of select communication technologies to be in contact with medical providers, as of March 2017. Two thirds of all respondents stated that they would be willing to communicate with their doctor, nurse or caregiver via e-mail.

Email 66
Online web portal 36
Text message 34
Mobile health applications (apps) 31
Online chat 28
None of the above 12