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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (8)	9/25/2000 11:11:26 AM
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E-healthcare analyst Goldstein predicts widepread adoption of Internet by healthcare providers 'Passive Web sites are history. By 2005 the majority of doctors and hospitals will be operating robust Web e-service channels for health knowledge, product sales, and actual medical delivery,' predicted e-Healthcare strategist Douglas E. Goldstein at a keynote he presented recently to 250 executive healthcare leaders at the McKesson HBOC executive and client retreat in Virginia. 'Many leading hospitals and doctors are laying aggressive e-service and technology plans to meet patient demands for online medical decision support, streamlined administrative services and Internet telemedicine from their doctors and hospitals. The next wave of e-healthcare leadership and true cost and quality transformation will come from healthcare organizations with existing customer relationships, strong cash flow and profits,' said Goldstein. Goldstein has spent the last year sharing his healthcare 'Bricks and e-Care Clicks' vision with healthcare audiences worldwide through his speeches and recently published book and CD, 'e-Healthcare: Harness the Power of Internet e-Commerce and e-Care.' Speaking about what he sees as the next stage of Internet growth--Revenge of the Healthcare Bricks--Goldstein explained, 'This is where operating for profit and non-profit healthcare organizations take back Internet e-Health leadership and implement e-community, e-commerce, and e-care services that enable the doctor-patient relationship and simplify commerce processes in a manner that increases security while reducing costs.' Describing how traditional healthcare organizations are starting to deliver value-added e-service to their customers through advanced Web-enabled customer relationship management platforms, Goldstein says, 'Many high revenue and profitable healthcare organizations have been carefully laying the foundation for the next generation of Internet applications that serve their customers. These Internet solutions will leverage existing brand and customer relationships, lower operating costs, and improve medical outcomes. Many under-funded pure-play e-Health business-to-consumer and business-to-business companies will be acquired as components of infrastructure for these major corporate strategies, or they will be forced to reinvent themselves as infrastructure-building dot-coms who build client brands.'