Posts Tagged ‘Medicine 2.0’
Physician Internet Use – 39% Email Patients
December 18, 2007
In a survey by Jupiter Research reported by iHealthbeat, the range of Internet usage is reported with some changes since one year ago. 89% this year vs 75% the previous year reported using the Internet for researching clinical information. While this doesn’t imply diagnosis via Google, it does show a continued growth toward the physician not using the Internet as the exception. Reading journals and communication with colleagues also showed increases – could this imply the future of the medical journal and hope for physician social networking, as in Sermo and Within3?
Finally, patient-oriented activities, while not scoring as high, had respectable increases – 69% searching for patient education materials and 39% (almost double in one year) emailing patients, we hope securely.
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Continuing Medical Education Through Video
December 5, 2007
There is a Spanish-language website, LiveMedWeb.tv serving Central and South America which is providing innovative CME using video interviews with medical experts. These short clips (longer than the typical YouTube) provide quick information to a large, otherwise untapped group of physicians. They also provide webinars through the site which are longer. The site is the product of LiveMed, a company from Mexico City which also provides live broadcasts of CME events.
Is there anyone in the US doing this?
Web 2.0 for Doctors
November 9, 2007
In a story from the San Jose Business Journal, start ups for physician social networking are featured. The president of Sermo sees that the over 45 crowd of MDs are the “power users”. No time to meet in the doctor’s lounge, less time for social events but time online to be collegial is what is suggested. Healthgrades and Medgadget are also mentioned. In trying to emphasize the need for health care to become more consumer friendly, we see this quote: “Fotsch of Medem predicts that as phone and video communication merge,
Web-based technology will gradually replace in-person office visits.” Now that may be out of context but there is potential for remote monitoring and exams which has already begun in rural areas. Maybe there is potential for the inner-city single mom as well who may need to take 3 buses with her baby to see a pediatrician. Innovative models need to serve all.
Share this:Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival
October 30, 2007
The carnival is hosted by The Health Wisdom Blog this week and includes a note about the Health 2.0 conference Spring Fling now being set for March 3-4, 2008 in San Diego. In announces the new blog by John Halamka, Chief Information Officer at Harvard Medical School called Life as a Healthcare CIO. And there is a mention for Fathom SEO, a local Cleveland SEO firm which has a new booklet on a list of the six best Web 2.0 health tools.
Share this:Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival
October 4, 2007
I’m on this blog carnival which is hosted by Clinical Cases and Images.
Check out the talk on Health 2.0 posted by The Efficient MD.
Share this:Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival
September 17, 2007
Constructive Medicine has posted the blog carnival for this week. Cites this blog as well as some interesting postings on others. Next carnival will be by Clincial Cases and Images.
One note on the thinking about Medicine 2.0: “In next generation of medicine management, diagnosis and treatment of
diseases could be based on the spirit of collaboration and sharing of patient related knowledge.”
