We invite your input for future issues. We're especially interested in your suggestions for Sites 2B Seen, Recommended Reading, Industry News & Gossip, and your questions for Doctom's FAQ. We also welcome your criticisms, comments, love notes, death threats, wild ideas, unfounded rumors, rants, raves, and press releases. Please send to Tom Ferguson at doctom@doctom.com.

Many thanks to the following for their contributions to this issue: Linda Adler, Anthony Higginbotham, Ed Madara, Trace Ruggles, and Todd and Laura Woodward.

Statement of Purpose
Online health resources will produce a major shift in healthcare. Online patients will become healthcare providers, managers, and advisors and professionals will increasingly serve as coaches, supporters, and coordinators of self-managed care. At this time of impending change, there is a need for the best thinkers-health and computer professionals and layfolk alike-to develop new and better online health tools for patients and to describe the next steps in the evolution of Information Age medicine. People and tools that can aid in this effort are sought and promoted by The Ferguson Report.

Published in The Ferguson Report, Number 3, May 1999

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