Update on Health 2.0 Conference
July 7, 2007
Matthew Holt has a major update on the conference to be held in September in San Francisco. He reports many new sponsors, lots of registrations, and a contest to fill a slot on the Social Media for Patients panel. He has some interesting links to new Health 2.0 companies.
Also on The Health Care Blog is a citation of my Web 2.0 in Health Care presentation.
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Web 2.0 in Health Care Links
July 7, 2007
Today I presented my Web 2.0 talk to the Clinical IT group at work. As a handout, I created a page of all links to sites mentioned in the talk. Here they are for a more general audience. These a just examples of web 2.0 websites, not intended to be a comprehensive list.
- Defining: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
- Photos and Tagging: www.Flickr.com, www.del.icio.us.com
- The World is Flat: http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/worldisflat.htm
- Growth of blogs: http://www.sifry.com/stateoftheliveweb/
Blogs in Health Care:
- http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com/
- http://RunningAHospital.blogspot.com
- http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/
- http://www.healthcareguy.com/
RSS: http://www.google.com/reader/view/
- http://davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/
- http://www.askdrwiki.com
- http://www.informatics-review.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Podcasting:
- http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/podcast/default2.htm
- http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/mediaII/Podcasts.html
- http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog
Social Networking
Tagging
- www.Del.icio.us.com – for web pages
- Digg.com – for news
- Technorati.com – for blogs
Ratings – www.RevolutionHealth.com, www. HospitalRatings.com
EMR – www.practicefusion.com
Blog Policy – http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html
Health 2.0 – http://www.health2con.com/
Wikinomics – http://www.wikinomics.com/book/
Technorati: Health 2.0
Share this:Pharma and Web 2.0
July 6, 2007
According to an article on iHealthbeat, drug companies are slow to adopt social media. The exception appears to be YouTube postings which are common for diabetes drugs, for instance. While much of their direct to consumer marketing has spawned a website for every new drug, blogs and wikis are rare in this space. As the article notes, the companies could learn much from their patients using this medium. There is also potential to enhance compliance – perhaps patients could learn from each other more about how to manage a chronic condition like diabetes.
Share this:More Response to my Web 2.0 in Health Care Presenation
July 3, 2007
Adopt Web 2.0 has also cited my slide contrasting Health care values with Web 2.0 values. Adopt Web 2.0 has some interesting entries outside of healthcare. It includes entries on Web 2.0 in science and in the enterprise. Looks like a good resource for trends in this sector.
Share this:Latin American Health Website
July 3, 2007
In a comment from Intramed, a Latin American medical website, Florencia Braga points out the lack of real international representation on the Google Health Advisory Group. As international as Google is, it is surprising. However, it may be that they can only address the US healthcare system now. Let’s hope they are open to expanding that advisory group in the future.
By the Way, Intramed has some real depth of content. It translates well from the Spanish using the Google Language tool for webpage translation.
Share this:NetWellness – a Ohio-based Health Information Destination
June 29, 2007
Netwellness is provides high-quality medical information vetted by university medical faculty including Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. In addition to having a reference library with links to Adam and ClinicalTrials.gov, there is an Ask the Expert feature which allows for asking questions but also posting previous questions. Not all areas are accepting new questions at once. Included are several links to resources I hadn’t seen before, such as, About Cancer Genes.
Worth some exploration.
Share this:Physician-Driven Google Health
June 28, 2007
Roni Zeiger, MD, of Google, Inc., wrote a significant post a few days ago from a physician’s perspective within Google on where things may be headed. Without using the word empowerment, Roni says, “But better-informed patients recover faster, manage chronic illnesses better and may even avoid some illnesses altogether. And patients should feel in control of their situation.”
Here are some of his thoughts on PHRs: “you should be able to enter as much or as little information as you want — and it’s important that you be allowed to access this kind of information without entering your name, insurance number or other personal information. We also think that if you want to save this information, you should have that choice so you can access it later or share it with your doctor.”
So both access to information and control of your own information is key to empowerment.
Many are questioning Google as a repository for personal health information. Let’s wait and see what they come up with – sounds like in this case they may be avoiding the advertising base that is more pervasive in their other applications.
Then today, an announcement from Missy Krasner on the Google Advisory Board on health. An interesting mix of national leaders in health care and health IT including Toby Cosgrove, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, Paul Tang, CMIO of Palo Alto Medical Center (Google’s neighbor), Dean Ornish, Bernadine Healy and the list goes on.
Share this:Organized Wisdom – a New Tagging Tool for Healthcare
June 26, 2007
Since Organized Wisdom’s blog cited my post on Web 2.0 in Health Care under the title, “Why Web 2.0 Matters to Healthcare Companies“, I thought I should return the favor with a description of their site. Organized Wisdom “is a health-focused social networking site that enables consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals and health organizations to collaborate on more than 6500 health topics.” Impressive reach with refined results for search of their tagged content in several categories similar to Google Coop Health. I see some similarities to Revolution Health as well because of the user-created content. The unique feature is Wisdom Cards which tell about personal medical incidents under subtitles: what happened, what went right, what went wrong, lessons learned.
Definitely worth further exploration.
Share this:Medicare Pilot Program To Test Personal Health Records
June 26, 2007
The participants in this pilot program are:
- HIP USA – New York’s largest HMO;
- Humana;
- Kaiser Permanente; and
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Each group will have unique PHR tools but all will own their health record and only share it with who they choose. The pilot program will last 18 months in order to determine what PHR features are helpful to Medicare beneficiaries. The story did not state whether the participants will be allowed to keep their PHRs after that time, however.
Share this:New Hospital CEO Blog
June 26, 2007
The CEO of Community General Hospital of Greater Syracuse has an internet blog called, “More Than Medicine.”
Looks like a good communication tool for his employees but based on the name, he is shooting for something more. In the subtitle he makes it clear that these are weekly posts which is probably reasonable for a CEO. Some of the posts are rather long but thoughtful and keep true to the More than medicine theme with posts like “The Good Doctor.” Will be interesting to see how many more hospital CEOs hop on this bandwagon.
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