People over the age of 65 are comfortable with web-based healthcare, a new study suggests.
Online tools such as telepharmacies and telemedicine were welcomed by three-quarters of older US consumers surveyed by the American Association of Retired Persons last year, reports eMarketer.
More than 90 per cent of respondents claimed they would support the monitoring of medications and prescriptions by doctors via the internet.
Almost the same amount reported a willingness to search for information about health on the internet.
However, older people's caregivers expressed some concerns about health e-commerce, with 80 per cent claiming it would be a struggle to persuade their charges to use the technology.
A prediction by the analyst expects that the proportion of internet users aged 62 or older is to grow to 25.3 million by 2011.
The research has emerged after the Daily Post reported that GPs in north Wales are to staff a call centre enabling patients to report their symptoms out of hours.
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