Posts Tagged ‘Health 2.0’
Google and Microsoft Health
August 15, 2007
In the New York Times today there is a major article on the health initiatives of these two tech monsters. Titled “Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health care”, the article quotes Adam Bosworth(Google), John D. Halamka (Harvard Medical School) and Steve Shihadeh (Microsoft) on the initiatives.
For Google’s part the author notes seeing screen shots of Google Health with its extensive health profile pages. These are now posted on an unofficial Google site. Microsoft is less forthcoming but the purchases like Medstory, and their “Knowledge Driven Health care” give a pretty good glimpse.
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Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution?
August 14, 2007
I like how this article from The Medical Journal of Australia creates a dichotomy between two key Web 2.0 concepts – how wikis build knowledge from the survival of the fittest ideas to the folksonomy of simple tags replacing complex taxonomies. The authors, a medical librarian and two physicians, create a helpful overview of Web 2.0 in health care and discussion of some of the conflicts between Web 2.0 values and those of medicine. Specifically, they note: “The time between notification of an error and cleanup has recently been debated by health bloggers as a window of possible harm, and other problems of governance, liability and accuracy have been raised in rapid responses to Dean Guistini’s recent BMJ article on Web 2.0.”
Regarding social networking, “students of all ages learn best when immersed within a culturally and socially rich environment in which learners and peers are committed to achieving the same goals and can regulate each others’ performance.” A real plus for medical and allied health education.
Share this:Online Support Groups
August 9, 2007
I recently heard about MD Junction, another online support community with very specific groups including fibromyalgia, ADHD and pulmonary hypertension. There is also a longer list of health forums and find a doctor tools with patient reviews. The site puts some emphasis on identifying diseases by ribbons which some patients and families find particularly helpful.
Does it have advantages over longer standing online groups such as MedHelp or more well funded ventures such as Revolution Health? Time will tell as the Health 2.0 market settles out in the near future.
Medicine 2.0 and Healthcare 100
July 28, 2007
Although it dates back to June, this post of 10 tips for How to Use Web 2.0 in Medicine has a nice list of tools. Second Life is at the top of the list. Medical blogs, medical wikis, medical search engines are all in the lineup. The growth of Web 2.0 in health care is exponential and will continue to spread.
On a related note, eDrugSearch.com has created the Healthcare 100 – top blogs in health and medicine. Not only are there 100 with some familiar names like Clincial Cases and Images and the Krafty Librarian, but another 150 give honorable mentioned. The ranking is based on a combine algorithm from Google, Bloglines and Technorati.
This blog is not there yet but will be added soon.
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.
Share this: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: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: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.
Share this:Medical Bloggers – Questioned and Cautious
June 19, 2007
In an article from the Detroit Free Press, blogging by physicians is examined, particularly ones that “tell all”. The article questions whether such blogs, where a physician discusses specific patients, should be policed. I agree that some physician bloggers and other medical professionals, should not mistake the anonymity of blogging as permission to vent their opinions about patients’ personal characteristics. What can be helpful about medical blogging is lost in such postings. Medical blogs are most effective if they focus on either medical education or give insight into how doctors think.
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