Table set for health e-volution

DENVER — The Internet will improve patient care and efficiency in the health-care industry, said analyst Meg Walsh at a May 18 Colorado Healthcare Strategy and Management conference.

“E-health is still in its infancy,” she said. “(But) it has impacted everyone in this room in one way or another.”

Walsh, who headed up Oncology.com and CBS Healthwatch, before becoming chief executive officer of netROI Inc., said visionaries weren’t wrong about what the Internet could do for health care.

“It was the speed and the money promises that maybe weren’t met,” she said.

But patients, doctors, health-maintenance organizations and others want services the Internet can…