AMIA Presentation on Web 2.0 for Clinical Decision Support

November 15, 2008

Of the many presentations at the American Medical Informatics Association, one was about the specific application of Web 2.0 technology to clinical decision support. Three examples were given:

  • Clinfowiki – a wiki devoted to clinical informatics
  • Partners HealthCare eRooms
  • Epic Systems Corporation’s Community Library

Certainly, there are many other applications of Web 2.0 to medical informatics. Social networking needs to be exploited. Two examples are:

Perhaps AMIA itself should begin a social network for its members or around each conference like Medicine 2.0 has done.

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