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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Short Selling Health 2.0?
December 8, 2008
In a post by Scott Shreeve on Crossover Health, he cites the recent Business Week article on Health 2.0. Although the attention to the topic by Business Week is a boon to the Health 2.0 movement, Scott sees the article as short selling the concept by limiting it to social networking only. I agree that Health 2.0 needs to remain a broad concept encompassing the “full cycle of care” and a broader set of tools which are truly revolutionary to care. Although adoption of Health 2.0 may be gradual in some areas, I agree that we need to keep the long view of the movement.
