Webicina, A Bridge Between Physicians and E-patients In The Web 2.0 Era

“Web 2.0 for physicians and patients”, that is the motto of Webicina, an online service focusing on how medical professionals of the 21st century can meet the expectations of e-patients and how patients can find reliable information and web 2.0 services about a specific medical condition.”
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PRWeb, 6 November 2008

e-Patients: How they can help us heal healthcare

We dedicate this work to the memory of our friend and colleague, Tom Ferguson, MD.

Before his untimely death, Tom assembled the group of advisors he dubbed the e-Patient Scholars Working Group. Several times over the years during which he was working on this White Paper, we would gather and participate in informal but intense seminars in which we would share research and ideas on the topics Tom proposed. We would read his latest version of the White Paper and give him feedback. We would exchange exciting ideas with each other and offer suggestions and encouragement for obstacles we faced in our own work. We did not expect, the last time we gathered with Tom at the Cooks’ Branch Conservancy outside of Houston, Texas, in February 2006, that he would not finish the White Paper.
White Paper (Wiki; pdf)
Tom Ferguson, The e-Patient Scholars Editorial Team, March 2007

e-patients: New York Times Health Section

“Read the comments and watch how patients lean and teach each other about how they can thrive in our health care system, and how we can perform better for them. This is a revolution.”
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Ted Eytan MD, 4 October 2008

Bridge between physicians and e-patients

“Just a quick note about the launch date of Webicina.com, the first medicine 2.0 online service. If everything goes well, it will be launched on the 1st of October.”
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Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 19 September 2008

The power of e-patients

“There is a whole blogosphere around the idea of transforming medicine into e-health. There are plenty of bloggers who often write about the IT opportunities of medicine and healthcare. But! What about patients? The consumers? Even if we have a Jay Parkinson, what can he do without patients who are ready to use his service?”
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Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 1 June 2008

E-patients can and will revolutionize health care

“By taking advantage of new online health tools, e-patients and health professionals now have the ability to create equal partnerships that enable individuals to be equipped, enabled, empowered and engaged in their health and health care decisions.”
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Susannah Fox, The Health Care Blog, 30 May 2008