Posts Tagged ‘Health 2.0’
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.”
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My Presentation on Web 2.0 in Healthcare to the Northern Ohio HIMSS
June 5, 2007
On Friday I presented at the conference of Northern Ohio Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society in Cleveland. The powerpoint is posted here. There was a positive response with lots of interest in hearing more. There is also an initiative to do more with SecondLife as the activity on the Cleveland Island grows. I am not a member yet, but probably will sign on soon.
The other presentations from the conference are worth checking out:
- Erica Drazen from FCG on Emerging Trends in Healthcare Information Technology
- Brad Chilton of University Hospitals of Cleveland on Infrastructure and Sourcing Strategies
- and two speakers on biotech innovation in Cleveland (presentations forthcoming) - a current hotbed for investment.
AMA Partners with Sermo.com for Physician Community
May 31, 2007
The American Medical Association is teaming up with Sermo, a Web 2.0 social networking site for physicians only to provide a new service for their 250,000 members. This new partnership will allow participation in discussions on Sermo but also allow members to discuss content from the AMA website using Sermo tools. The AMA also plans to use the interactive tools to discuss health policy issues. Sermo also allows users to post cases securely discuss them. Sermo verifies credentials after a user creates an account using physician databases.
Share this:Web 2.0 in the Student British Medical Journal
May 16, 2007
The StudentBMJ has an interesting take on Web 2.0 in Healthcare titled, “Trust Me, Trust Me Not”. He cites some familiar blogs including Clinical Cases and Images and other resources like the visible human project and Elsevier’s
Student Consult (www.studentconsult.com). In addition, he discusses the pros and cons of blogs and medical wikis.
“Because of the scope for error offered by the wiki format, many people involved in medical education remain suspicious. However, room for compromise exists between different models of editorial authority.” In pointing out the need to have a critical eye toward any knowledge base, he concludes, “Perhaps it is comforting to reflect that when working in these exciting new fields of knowledge creation and synthesis, traditional skills of knowledge evaluation and appraisal will be as important as ever-if not more so.”
Share this:Physician Blogging – What does it Look Like?
May 15, 2007
In an article in USA Today titled, “Paging Dr. Blog: Online Discourse Raises Questions,” notes that physician blogs include everything from venting about difficult patients to medical education to issues which border on violating privacy. How realistic is this concern – it is difficult to tell. There is also a concern if they are presenting medical information but in an anonymous fashion, can they be trusted? Is this a licensed physician or a pretender?
The article notes that only 1% of blogs relate to health topics. One potential benefit is noted – patients may better understand the way physicians think, although recent books may do a more thorough job on this.
Share this:Medical Wikis reviewed in AMA News
May 4, 2007
AskDrWiki and other medical wikis are discussed in AMA News this week. Generally positive, the article cautions, “As more medical wikis launch, experts say the creators will need to break away from the traditional wiki model to ensure that the information accessed is accurate. That is what many medical wikis are doing, which makes adding content slower but allows time for fact-checking.”
On a related note, I recently came across this hospital CEO blog from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, titled Running a Hospital which provides a unique, day-to-day perspective on just that.
Share this:Health 2.0 Conference
April 26, 2007
Does a trend become a reality when there is a conference on it? If so, Health 2.0 is now offical. A conference is being planned by Matthew Holt in San Francisco in September, subtitled, “User-generated Healthcare.” Not much information yet, but a solid advisory board is working on it and there is a growing list of featured companies and organizations. Will watch this as it develops.
Health 2.0 is now a tag on Technorati and del.icio.us
Share this:Medical Wikis Proliferate
April 24, 2007
A posting on Clinical Cases and Images points to David Rothman’s list of Medical Wikis. I agree that there are enough to annotate and categorize. Not sure how since they are a wide variety – prehaps to distiguish at least general reference wikis from those which are specific to one disease.
Some of the wikis are oriented toward patients, such as, wikicancer. I am frustrated when I cannot easily find the sponsor of a wiki although I realize that there are many contributors, albiet relatively annonymous.
How long before there is a medical wiki aggregator, a master wiki?
Share this:Health care 2.0
April 17, 2007
This article in Government HealthIT is a cautious review of Web 2.0 in health care. Brian Robinson poses the question, “New Web tools promise to tear down barriers to health care information sharing, but will they pass the test for privacy and accuracy?” He notes from various sources that while Web 2.0 may have great potential in health care, practitioners and consumers a just getting their first taste of it. He quotes Eric Dishman from Intel that Web 2.0 as a concept may be unfamiliar but when you show someone what it can do, they get it.
He also quotes Anil Jain, MD, of the eCleveland Clinic eResearch initiative who sees opportunity to use RSS and other technologies to enable information about clinical trials to be more quickly distributed.
Google and wikis are noted as tools which are beginning to be used for diagnosis search and medical reference, respectively.
Overall the article is positive while noting privacy and security issues which are yet to be completely addressed.
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