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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Health 2.0 and Relationship Centered Care
December 12, 2008
In response the Business Week article on Health 2.0, the Syndicom blog has posted on the importance of relationship centered care and its relationship to Health 2.0. I would agree that Health 2.0 promotes relationships – with many social networking sites, much of the relationships being supported are between patients. But some are also promoting physician/patient communication. The post also notes concerns about the potential relationships with phrama. But overall, this push for openness and away from paternalism enabled by technology will continue.
