With internet access now widespread in many countries, electronic methods of contact and data gathering for surveys have become possible.
Online marketplace Amazon.com also did well joining the list for the first time for innovations in data centres, devices, electronic methods and systems, while ageing tech giants such as IBM and Hewlett Packard dropped out.
This is not an entirely new development, but rather an extension of a gradual process which has seen cash decline in favor of plastic cards which were once run through machines that took copies of them on paper slips, then were swiped electronically, and are now increasingly inserted, tapped, or even ignored altogether in favor of fully electronic methods.
Interest in collecting Patient Reported Outcomes using electronic methods such as mobile phones has increased in recent years.
With advances in technology, notably the use of electronic methods of data collection, this type of patient centred assessment, including assessment of quality of life, psychological distress and social problems becomes possible (Newell et al, 1997; Velikova et al, 1999).
In our survey of the research, electronic methods, including games and other types of computer-assisted therapies, have been shown to be equivalent but not superior in efficacy for a wide variety of medical health and mental health issues, in group, individual, and self-guided treatment.
An experienced librarian in electronic search methods performed the literature search.
In the 1950s an electronic method was devised to intensify the image, the so-called image intensifier, which made possible the overcoming of the technical difficulties, and cineradiography became routine.
Everything is in an integrative [sic] electronic method that you can read it quickly through several different notes and review it.
An inventor in Houston has sued O. F. Mossberg & Sons, a Connecticut shotgun maker, claiming the company took his electronic method of locking the firing mechanism of guns.
