Posts Tagged ‘Web 2.0’
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.
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The Future of RSS
June 19, 2007
In an article on ReadWrite, RSS is defined but also extended. Here are some quotes:
“So today RSS is a great distribution medium. Why? Because it has become ubiquitous. If you are an online business with customers and you do not utilize RSS, then you are simply missing out. Smart companies are leveraging blogs, photos, video, podcasts to stay in touch with customers daily. Other services, like del.icio.us (owned by Yahoo), allow users to publish and subscribe to feeds, enabling powerful social networks outside the website.”
“In order for RSS extensions to work, the second piece of the old technology dilemma needs to be solved. There needs to be a common format for communicating data between applications.”
So the future of RSS may be as a lightweight tool to transfer data between applications. More on this soon.
Share this:Interest in Web 2.0 in Health Care
June 6, 2007
Posting my slides on Web 2.0 in health care generated some interest:
Thanks for the postings – I hope it stimulates some new thinking.
Share this: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.
State of the Live Web
May 17, 2007
This report by Technorati is a survey of social networking on the web in 2007. They are tracking 70 million blogs with 120,000 created every day. Some of the growth in the US is slowing down but elsewhere it is booming. Japan equals the US in the number of blogs. Volume – 1.4 million posts per day and traffic enough to challenge the main stream media.
How about health care? Not really mentioned. I would guess a slower growth rate in blogs and social networking. However, more health IT and physician blogs appear daily. Will try to feature some in the future.
Share this:Medical Wikis – a followup
May 5, 2007
Some helpful comments on yesterday’s post point to additional Wiki initiatives and discussion:
- WHO adopts Wikipedia approach for key update – a update of the ICD codes will utilize a wiki
- The British Medical Journal article from last year on Web 2.0 has a wealth of Rapid Responses which link to many more emerging Web 2.0 resources including Wikisurgery.com and JournalReview.org
Revolution Health Launch
April 16, 2007
A story in the NY Times today reports on the official launch of Revolution Health. Titled “AOL Founder Hopes to Build New Giant Among a Bevy of Health Care Web Sites”, the article details the competition, WebMD, NIH, MayoClinic and others who already have a large market share and appropriately wonders where this venture will end up. As a new brand, Revolution Health will need to establish itself over time but with unique offerings in terms of interactive features (rating articles, providers, hospitals), personal blogs and comments, it may easily gain traction. The article notes that, “Google is also reportedly at work on various links to consumer health information that users will be able to personalize to their own specifications.” But indicates that Steve Case’s response is unimpressed, “not particularly helpful.”
The report quotes a Gartner analyst about the insignificant market for Personal Health records and predicting that the PHR within Revolution Health will have little affect on its success.
My perspective is that this skepticism about PHRs is overstated and the technology will begin to reach a tipping point in the next year.
Share this:eHealth Wiki Launched
April 10, 2007
I came across this new wiki sponsored by the Journal of Medical Interenet Research and the Centre for Global eHealth Research. The wiki proposes to be a location for collaborative writing of journal articles and research proposals and grant applications. A very collaborative venture if the research community gets on board. There are also events which will list conferences (only one listed so far). Unfortunately, it looks like they have had some pornographic spamming already in the ehealth dictionary section. Wikis take a fair amount of monitoring or control in terms of who can be a contributor.
Share this:Upcoming Presentation at Research Day at Case Western Reserve University
April 6, 2007
I will be copresenting a poster titled, “Web-based Collaboration for Clinical Care, Research and Education at an Academic Hospitalist Group” at the Research ShowCase. Coauthors are all physicians – Ves Dimov (Clinical Cases and Images blog), Ashish Atreja, a medical informaticist, Neil Mehta of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and others. Collaboration on the web has new meaning in the Web 2.0 age. One could debate whether Windows Sharepoint Services is really Web 2.0 since it runs on a proprietary system but once up and running it is low cost, easy to establish a personal or team site and ready for user-contributed content.
Check out some of the other presentations which are innovative and a colorful variety of work. The authors of AskDrWiki will be there and Ves Dimov is also presenting on his blog.
Share this:AskDrWiki.com in the News and Blogs
April 2, 2007
This wiki which I referred to previously, is now receiving much attention both in the press since a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and in health care blogs. The best summary of all of this press in on Clincal Case and Images blog which points to the best blog responses to this innovative wiki and views this as a future disruptive competitor for major, subscription-based online reference tools.
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