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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