Web 2.0 in Healthcare

September 26, 2007 at 7:32 am | In Web 2.0 |
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Generated ImageI’ve been watching the Web 2.0 meme for a number of years. I run an online community site that could be said to fit into the Web 2.0 realm. At first, the term Web 2.0 stuck me as a clever bit of ironic marketing: traditional software comes in nicely packaged releases, therefore wouldn’t it be fun to pretend the next ‘version’ of the www has just been released. Well, the marketing worked and the term has gradually come to represent some of the newer and more interesting trends in website construction and use.

 If you want a quick summary of Web 2.0 in Healthcare or ‘Health 2.0′ as it’s now being termed, check out this video from the recent Health 2.0 Conference:

The IMIA has recently set up working group to look at how Web 2.0 is affecting healthcare. There is a portal site at: http://differance-engine.net/imia20/and a new Ning social network: http://imia20.ning.com/

The Medical Librarian’s Association also have a Web 2.0 group and have recently released the results of their  into Web 2.0 usage amoungst librarians: http://sns.mlanet.org/blog/2007/09/24/what-mla-members-told-us-about-social-networking/

There’s also a recent ‘Blog Carnival’ to celebrate Web 2.0 in Health Informatics going on: http://healthinformatics20.blogspot.com/

If you want to keep up-to-date with Web 2.0 in Healthcare, Bertalan Meskó’s Scienceroll is the blog to watch.

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  1. Thank you, Chris, for the kind words!

    Actually, the first blog carnival about web 2.0 and medicine is Medicine 2.0 (at medicine20.wordpress.com). You could also contribute to that carnival with your articles.

    Comment by Bertalan Meskó — October 1, 2007 #

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  4. Thanks Chris. This is a really good summary of the various ways in which the term Health 2.0 is understood. I’m currently writing an article on the subject and whilst I’d found examples of each of these different understandings of Web 2.0 I was struggling a bit to bring it all together in my head. I will of course be referencing your blog.

    Kind Regards
    Iain

    Comment by Iain Doherty — May 8, 2008 #

  5. Cheers Iain, let me know if you need any more help with anything web 2.0. The Medicine 2.0 conference is still accepting abstracts if that’s of interest:

    http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/callforpapers.php

    Comment by Chris Paton — May 8, 2008 #

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