“Tom Davenport, in a Harvard Business Publishing Blog post, does a nice job of discussing the merging of “Health 2.0″, the aggregate of online communities, wiki’s, bloggers, and tweets, with the role of traditional medical providers. He asks whether, if you get seriously ill, you will rely solely on colleagues online or whether you’ll seek out a traditional medical provider at a reputable facility and, correctly, concludes the latter. He also accurately points out that internet savvy consumers will, after the onset of their symptoms or illness, rely on “health 2.0″ people and tools to obtain information, check out options, get reactions and opinions on proposed therapies and, I believe, armed with this information, will come out with a better outcome.”
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Charlie Smith, e-patients.net, 16 June 2009
