John Sharp is an IT Manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio. Areas of expertise include: ehealth, personal health records, Web 2.0 technologies, social media and project management. He is active in the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society and the American Medical Informatics Association. The opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author.
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Archive for June 12th, 2007
Web 2.0 Values vs. Health Care Values
June 12, 2007
Some have commented on a slide in my presentation about this topic contrasting disruptive Web 2.0 values such as risk taking opposing health care values, risk adverse. The interesting thing is that good medical practice by nature is collaborative and should embrace Web 2.0. But the conservative side of medicine will continue to hold back some of the potential of Web 2.0. Ves Dimov of Clinical Cases and Images has his “own theory about the 6 axes of medical education in Web 2.0 style.”
