Meskó B, Dubecz A. Orvosi Hetilap, 148(44)
The importance of the internet and some new generation services of the web (so-called web 2.0) is exponentially growing. As web 2.0 is based on collaboration, feedback and communities, it can ease the work of physicians. The authors give a short overview of the web 2.0 tools created for physicians.
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Heilman JM et al, J Med Internet Res, 13(1)
The Internet has become an important health information resource for patients and the general public. Wikipedia, a collaboratively written Web-based encyclopedia, has become the dominant online reference work. It is usually among the top results of search engine queries, including when medical information is sought. Since April 2004, editors have formed a group called WikiProject Medicine to coordinate and discuss the English-language Wikipedia’s medical content.
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Trevena L. BMJ, 342(jun08 3)
In January 2011, members of WikiProject Medicine published an article about the intricacies, strengths, and weaknesses of Wikipedia as a source of health information and compared it with other medical wikis. The article poses some interesting challenges and opportunities for the global community as Wikipedia’s seven year old WikiProject Medicine reaches an estimated 150 million viewers every month.
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Joseph McMenamin, iMedicalApps
“A medical malpractice plaintiff must meet four tests: a duty, breach of that duty, causation (the “so what?” question), and damages. A failure to prove any one of these elements is fatal to the plaintiff’s case. In mHealth, the most complex of these may be the one that, in conventional care, is the simplest: duty.
In most health care, it’s usually pretty clear when I am your doctor and you are my patient.
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Leithner A et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(4)
The English version of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has been recently reported to be the prominent source of online health information. However, there is little information concerning the quality of information found in Wikipedia. Therefore, we created a questionnaire asking for scope, completeness, and accuracy of information found on osteosarcoma. Three independent observers tested the English version of Wikipedia, as well as the patient version and the health professional version of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) website. Answers were verified with authoritative resources and international guidelines.
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Rajagopalan MS et al, J Clin Oncol, 28:7s (suppl; abstr 6058)
Background:
A Wiki is a website which can be directly, openly edited; Wikipedia, a collaborative encyclopedia, is a well-known example. Due to a Wiki’s lack of editorial control and formal structure, we hypothesized that the content would be less complete and less accurate than that presented on a formal, peer-reviewed web site. Our goal was to compare the coverage, accuracy, and readability of cancer information from a Wiki (Wikipedia) with a peer-reviewed web site, the patient-oriented National Cancer Institute’s Physician Data Query (PDQ) comprehensive cancer database.
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Friedlin J, McDonald CJ, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(3)
The logical observation identifiers names and codes (LOINC) database contains 55 000 terms consisting of more atomic components called parts. LOINC carries more than 18 000 distinct parts. It is necessary to have definitions/descriptions for each of these parts to assist users in mapping local laboratory codes to LOINC. It is believed that much of this information can be obtained from the internet; the first effort was with Wikipedia. This project focused on 1705 laboratory analytes (the first part in the LOINC laboratory name).
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Vincent Fromentin, Agora Vox
“Alors que l’on voit fleurir le fameux suffixe numérique “2.0″ sur tous les termes à la mode, que signifie réellement la « santé 2.0 » ?
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Denise Silber's Blog
“The Wikipedia Handbook of Biomedical informatics is itself a gem “published” today, thanks to the wonderful new Web 2.0 world in which we live and in particular to the organizational efforts of Pr Renato Sabbatini in Brazil.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“A while back I decided to take a weekend and create an EMR, EHR and HIPAA wiki to go alongside this website. I still think it’s a really good idea that still has yet to be full realized.
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Laika's MedLibLog
“Wikipedia is an admirable initiative. It is a large online collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia written by contributors around the world.
But the key question is whether you can rely on Wikipedia as the sole source for medical, scientific or even popular information.
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HealthTech Wire
“Many organizations struggle to successfully deploy clinical decision support (CDS), a goal that takes on new importance since effective clinical decision support is a critical component of ‘meaningful EMR use,’ as required for stimulus funding under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
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Kyle Hardy, Healthcare IT News
“The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Soceity has deployed a new wiki to allow healthcare organizations to collaborate on realizing the full potential of clinical decision support solutions.
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Gautham Nagesh, NextGov
“Anyone who has used the Internet is likely familiar with Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia edited and run almost entirely by volunteers. Wikipedia is the Web’s most prominent source of information, but because of its crowd-sourcing model, it’s not always the most credible.
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Denise Silber's Blog
“Prononcez le mot Wikipedia devant certaines personnes du secteur de la Santé et la fontaine de critiques se met en marche….
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Kevin Pho, USA Today
“I researched my condition on Wikipedia.” That’s what more doctors, myself included, are hearing from patients every day.
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Wikimedia Blog
“Every day millions of people access health information online. We have recently seen some new hard evidence of Wikipedia’s growing prominence as a health information resource. The rapid development and traffic on the English Wikipedia of an article on the 2009 flu pandemic demonstrates this trend.
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NIH News
“The National Institutes of Health and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates the Wikipedia® online encyclopedia, are joining forces to make health and science information more accessible and reliable. This collaboration is the first of its kind for both organizations.
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Ves Dimov, Clinical Cases and Images - Blog
“Study: Junior physician’s use of Web 2.0 for information seeking and medical education:
Google and Wikipedia used by 80% and 70% of physicians, respectively.
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Naomi Freundlich, The Health Care Blog
“No surprise, these days more and more doctors are searching online for medical information. What is surprising, however, is that in a recent study, nearly 50% of physicians indicated that they use Wikipedia—the open-access encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit articles—as their source for medical information.
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