Posts Tagged ‘Health 2.0’
Health 2.0 Video Presentations
March 18, 2009
If you like demos, you’ll want to tune into these Health 2.0 videos.
- Start with Matthew Holt talking about healthcare reform on h20tv.
- then jump over to Vimeo for videos of some breakout sessions, such as, Disease Management 2.0
- or try Wellness 2.0
- and Patient Social Networks
So many product demos in one place. Shows how Health 2.0 continues to be a growth area for innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Medpedia – a New Entry in Health Information
February 19, 2009
Medpedia is a new health information website based on a wiki platform. It allows contributions by qualified medical professionals only and with some major medical centers as contributors, is looking to become a leader in online medical reference. Does it hold advantages over the leaders in this space – MayoClinic.com, Revolution Health and WebMD? No doubt web searchers will continue to go to Wikipedia for medical content despite an uneven record. Overall the combination of quality content and good visuals will make the site attractive to some. Will need to check back in a few months to see how successful this new venture is.
Share this:Interview of Matthew Holt by Missy Krasner – Great Combination
February 12, 2009
On the Disruptive Women in Health Care blog, Missy interviews Matthew on, what else, Health 2.0 – defining it, discussing the long tail, and what this means in health care. How is Health 2.0 disruptive? Search, social network and tools – he gives some examples of each.
Share this:The State of Physician Social Networks
February 9, 2009
In a new report from Manhattan Research discusses the adoption of social networks by physicians. Clearly there is growth in the number of these networks available which potentially dilutes their impact. The survey showed about 60% of physicians were interested in social networks and 40% not. Sermo and Medscape Physician Connect have 100,000 each but it is unclear how many of these are duplicates or active users. With any social network, the effectiveness can be measured by the activity rather than shear numbers of members.
Participating members were more likely to be:
- primary care physicians;
- female;
- Own a PDA or smartphone;
- Go online during or between patient consultations; and
- slightly younger than the average physician.
To me, the most unique finding is that the participation of female physicians. I haven’t heard any previous report focusing on female physician participation on social networks. This topic is worth more research.
Share this:Web 2.0 as a Disruptive Technology
January 8, 2009
Imitation as a form of flattery – on SlideShare, Len Starnes has picked up on one of my slides on Web 2.0 in Health Care on disruptive technology. See the embedded slide show, slide #8 showing some of the similarities between healthcare organizations and pharma in terms of being risk adverse, requiring long lead times and intellectual property being closely guarded vs. Web 2.0 values.
Later in the presentation, there is a discussion of Wiks, “Doctors like wikis” and “Wikis can streamline project management.”
I am glad that pharma is adopting Web 2.0 strategies and I hope it will lead to listening to consumers and providers rather then just marketing to them.
Share this:Hospital Social Networking
January 8, 2009
Ed Bennett of the University of Maryland has put together a very comprehensive list of social networking sites hosted by hospitals including their use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. YouTube looks like the most common but many are moving forward with Twitter. Some have clearer strategies with Twitter and other Web 2.0 tools than others. Most are using Twitter for health advice, others as an abbreviated version of press releases. It remains to be seen where this will go in the future – how it might be used in emergency communication (MD Anderson during the hurricane) or employee communication.
Once hospitals begin to really exploit smart phones, the possibilities are endless except for the limitation of paying attention to patients first.
Share this: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.
Share this: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.
Share this:Health 2.0 Wiki and People
December 5, 2008
As an outgrowth of the Health 2.0 conference, there is a growing Health 2.0 wiki including some bios of Health 2.0 people. Obviously this listing is not comprehensive but then as an evolving field, Health 2.0 will always have a growing following. It is interesting to compare the definitions of Health 2.0 on this wiki vs. Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia: “A concise definition of Health 2.0 is the participatory healthcare characterized by the ability to rapidly share, classify and summarize individual health information with the goals of improving health care systems, experiences and outcomes via integration of patients and stakeholders.“
- Health 2.0 wiki: “The social-networking revolution is coming to health care, at the same time that new Internet technologies and software programs are making it easier than ever for consumers to find timely, personalized health information online.”
Change Health Care
December 2, 2008
Here’s a good idea – change health care. This may be one of the promises of the new administration but it is also a website to help consumers and insurers with dealing with the cost of health care and healthcare decisions. The concept is a social network for employers and employees to share their healthcare experiences. Checkout the free ebook: My Healthcare is Killing Me available on the site.
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