Community, Twitter, Weblogs, RSS en Social networking ?

“U ziet ons vaker schrijven over de inzet van nieuwe media in de zorg. We doen dit in navolging van ontwikkelen in “de rest” van de maatschappij waarin de manier van communiceren aan het veranderen is. Korter, sneller, oppervlakkiger. In het laatste schuilt natuurlijk een gevaar, we moeten dus alert blijven op het doorslaan van deze maatschappelijke ontwikkeling daar dit niet alleen een on-line verschijnsel is.”
Article (Dutch)
Lucien Engelen, Acute Zorgregio Oost, 9 October 2008

Webicina: Let the discussion begin

“After months of hard work, today we launched Webicina officially, an online service that aims to help medical professionals and patients enter the web 2.0 era.
Please visit our site and register to get access to the free e-courses and to see what kind of services we provide.”
Article
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 7 October 2008

Webicina

Health 1.0 vs. 2.0: The Ix Role in the Consumer Portal Shakeout?

“Everyday Health and Revolution Health have announced their merger, creating a consumer health Web site designed to challenge WebMD. The new company will operate under the name Waterfront Media.
There’s no doubt that they will get a lot of consumer traffic to their network of sites. One of the things that remains unclear for both Waterfront and WebMD is to what extent they will serve primarily as reference sources versus playing a greater role in consumers’ own health management. The answer may very well lie in the degree to which they provide information therapy (Ix), not just health information.”
Article
Josh Seidman, PCHIT Blog, 3 October 2008

EPD-vraagstuk botst met Health2.0-werkelijkheid

“Het elektronisch patiëntendossier (EPD) haalde deze maand de troonrede. Voor de regering is het dit najaar er op of er onder: het landelijk dossier inclusief schakelpunt moet er komen. Een kaderwet met daarin de verplichtstelling dat op 1 september 2009 zorgverleners, huisartsen, apothekers en ziekenhuizen deel moeten nemen aan het landelijk schakelpunt, moet leiden tot het succesvol einde van een langlopend overheidsproject. De Tweede Kamer lijkt minister Klink te steunen, maar tegelijkertijd wijzen steeds meer marktpartijen het landelijk EPD af. Huisartsen, zorgbestuurders en zelf de Raad voor de Volkgezondheid plaatsen kritische kanttekeningen. Online dossiers als Google Health worden als oplossing genoemd. Health2.0-toepassingen lijken het bastion van het EPD te kraken. Een inzicht in de discussie.”
Article (Dutch)
Martijn Hulst, FrankWatching, 26 September 2008

EFMI STC 2008 - day 2

“We had an excellent gala conference dinner at the New Connaught Rooms on Wednesday evening. Due to trying to get things to work properly on the BCS wireless and Ethernet networks, I was not able to take notes on the session by Celia Boyer and Petra Wilson on ‘Trustworthiness in the age of Web 2.0?; however, they covered the Health on the Net code and related issues , and generated discussion of how we might ‘kitemark’ reliable websites that are Web 2.0-based and on which content might be changing rapidly.”
Article
Peter, hi-blogs.info, 25 September 2008

Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers

“Background: Blogs are the major contributors to the large increase of new websites created each year. Most blogs allow readers to leave comments and, in this way, generate both conversation and encourage collaboration. Despite their popularity, however, little is known about blogs or their creators.
Objectives: To contribute to a better understanding of the medical blogosphere by investigating the characteristics of medical bloggers and their blogs, including bloggers’ Internet and blogging habits, their motivations for blogging, and whether or not they follow practices associated with journalism.
Methods: We approached 197 medical bloggers of English-language medical blogs which provided direct contact information, with posts published within the past month. The survey included 37 items designed to evaluate data about Internet and blogging habits, blog characteristics, blogging motivations, and, finally, the demographic data of bloggers.
Pearson’s Chi-Square test was used to assess the significance of an association between 2 categorical variables. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was utilized to reveal the relationship between participants’ ages, as well as the number of maintained blogs, and their motivation for blogging. The Mann-Whitney U test was employed to reveal relationships between practices associated with journalism and participants’ characteristics like gender and pseudonym use.
Results: A total of 80 (42%) of 197 eligible participants responded. The majority of responding bloggers were white (75%), highly educated (71% with a Masters degree or doctorate), male (59%), residents of the United States (72%), between the ages of 30 and 49 (58%), and working in the healthcare industry (67%). Most of them were experienced bloggers, with 23% (18/80) blogging for 4 or more years, 38% (30/80) for 2 or 3 years, 32% (26/80) for about a year, and only 7% (6/80) for 6 months or less. Those who received attention from the news media numbered 66% (53/80). When it comes to best practices associated with journalism, the participants most frequently reported including links to original source of material and spending extra time verifying facts, while rarely seeking permission to post copyrighted material. Bloggers who have published a scientific paper were more likely to quote other people or media than those who have never published such a paper (U= 506.5, n₁= 41, n₂= 35, P= .016). Those blogging under their real name more often included links to original sources than those writing under a pseudonym (U= 446.5, n₁= 58, n₂= 19, P= .01). Major motivations for blogging were sharing practical knowledge or skills with others, influencing the way others think, and expressing oneself creatively.
Conclusions: Medical bloggers are highly educated and devoted blog writers, faithful to their sources and readers. Sharing practical knowledge and skills, as well as influencing the way other people think, were major motivations for blogging among our medical bloggers. Medical blogs are frequently picked up by mainstream media; thus, blogs are an important vehicle to influence medical and health policy.”
Article
Kovic I, Lulic I, Brumini G, J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e28, doi:10.2196/jmir.1118

Live Chat with Dr. Jason Hwang on Disruptive Innovation

“At a Live Chat today with Dr. Jason Hwang co-author of The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, (Sponsored by the World Healthcare innovation and Technology Congress) I asked him how he saw the recent and fast paced developments in mobile phone applications and technology having an impact on health care.”
Article
Fred Fortin, AJFortin.com, 23 September 2008

Medical Education Evolution: The Database

“Medical Education Evolution is a community for those who are passionate about changing medical education with web 2.0 tools. We are working on a concept about how to implement web 2.0 tools into medical education. That’s why we started to construct a database of medicine 2.0-related links. If you have suggestions how to improve the database, feel free to drop me an e-mail so I can invite you to edit the page.”
Article
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 21 September 2008

New Youtube Channels

“I wanted to share two new, medicine-related Youtube channels with you. The first one is managed by the Detroit Medical Center and focuses on medical animations, educational materials.”
Article
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 11 September 2008

Medicine 2.0 Congress in Spotlight

“Some days ago, Slideshare.net featured the slideshows of the successful Medicine 2.0 Congress.”
Article
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 11 September 2008

Creating a Facebook-like medical record

“That’s when I finally got it: How great would it be if, through the medical record, I could interact with multiple specialists who have seen my patient – in real time, just like my kids are interacting with far-flung friends on Facebook. And if nurses could leave me a note which I could answer online without having to respond to a page. And if the daily plan for a patient – developed collaboratively – could be shared among all the caregivers, with notes appended when a patient’s clinical ship seemed to be blowing off course.”
Article
Bob Wachter, The Health Care Blog, 11 September 2008

Managing Risks in Health 2.0

“Interactive media with user-generated content, often generically referred to as Web 2.0, has taken off in health care in the last couple of years. But with all the options and convenience that blogs, wikis, social networking sites, chat rooms, and message boards have opened up for patients and providers alike, the technology known as health 2.0 or medicine 2.0 is not without risk.”
Article
Neil Versel, Digital Healthcare & Productivity, 9 September 2008

Consumer Health Information Services 2.0

“Web 2.0 functionality is changing the way consumers search for, evaluate, and use health information. What are some of the new “Consumer Health 2.0” sites and their features? How will this trend toward participatory information processing affect traditional sites such as the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus? How should librarians approach this new paradigm of health information-seeking? This article analyzes the current and potential environment for health information on the Internet and the role of the librarian in that environment.”
Abstract
Susan Mayer, Kay Smith, Gabriel Rios, Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, Volume: 12 Issue: 3, 187 - 199, DOI: 10.1080/15398280802143566

Versatile, Immersive, Creative and Dynamic Virtual 3-D Healthcare Learning Environments: A Review of the Literature

“The author provides a critical overview of three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds and “serious gaming” that are currently being developed and used in healthcare professional education and medicine. The relevance of this e-learning innovation for teaching students and professionals is debatable and variables influencing adoption, such as increased knowledge, self-directed learning, and peer collaboration, by academics, healthcare professionals, and business executives are examined while looking at various Web 2.0/3.0 applications. There is a need for more empirical research in order to unearth the pedagogical outcomes and advantages associated with this e-learning technology. A brief description of Roger’s Diffusion of Innovations Theory and Siemens’ Connectivism Theory for today’s learners is presented as potential underlying pedagogical tenets to support the use of virtual 3-D learning environments in higher education and healthcare.”
Article
Margaret M Hansen, J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e26, doi:10.2196/jmir.1051

What’s the buzz about Self-Monitoring?

“One of the areas getting ready to grow dramatically in the near future is self monitoring. As countries face physician resource crises, patients are unable to find family physicians and chronic diseases become a greater burden on already overloaded healthcare systems, new processes and sytems will evolve to deal with the demand for care. A significant amount of chronic disease care is provided through hospital based ambulatory clinics and through other specialty clinics. However, there are only so many hands on board and providing increased face-to-face services is not always the best option.”
Article
Alan Brookstone, Canadian EMR, 28 August 2008

Webicina: Frequently Asked Questions

“After one and a half days I presented Webicina.com, an online service focusing on Medicine 2.0, I’m still receiving plenty of questions so I thought a FAQ page would make things clear.”
Article
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 26 August 2008

From a Medical Blog to an Online Service: A bridge between physicians and e-patients

“I’ve been preparing to write this announcement for months. Scienceroll is almost 2 years old and I thought it’s time to launch my online service. I’ve written hundreds and hundreds of posts about the impact of web 2.0 on medicine, healthcare, medical education and communication. I’m always saying e-patients would change the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered. And physicians of the 21st century must be qualified to meet their expectations.”
Article
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 24 August 2008

Blog-based applications and health information: Two case studies that illustrate important questions for Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) research

“Weblogs (blogs), together with podcasts and wikis are part of the larger body of next-generation communication applications dubbed “web 2.0.” Within the specific area of health care, little attention has been devoted to understanding what applications are available to the lay public and how these are being used. In this study, a literature review on blogs and blogging practices was conducted, followed by case study analyses of two separate sites that use blogging tools to help patients and other lay web end-users record health-related experiences. This paper explores the diverse purposes for which blogging applications can be (or are being) used in relation to health and introduces the idea of “health goal-oriented” blogging. The discussion focuses on relevant informatics questions that arise with respect to the use of blogs and makes suggestions for subsequent research.”
Abstract
Samantha A. Adams, International Journal of Medical Informatics, doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.06.009

Unique Medical Simulation in Second Life!

“We organize medical exercises and meetings at the Ann Myers Medical Center in Second Life. Now the e-Learning Faculty of Imperial College London created a spectacular and useful Second Life tool in medical education. Here are some screenshots that can describe what the learning process looks like.
Article
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 17 August 2008

Web 2.0 and your Health

“It’s been a while since I’ve written but ran across this article titled ‘MyFamilyHealth is a great Web 2.0 health site’, while researching another topic and had to type something. First, I’m not a web2.0 expert like my esteemed collegue, LoriMac, - but I do cover security for our team.”
Article
Pete Silva, DevCentral, 14 August 2008

Health 2.0 User-Generated Healthcare

“How are Web 2.0 technologies like social networks, wikis and online communities changing the face of the health care industry? How are hospital systems and physician practices evolving as a result of rapid technological change?  How can health plans evolve in the face of emerging challenges with the help of new technologies and new thinking? What will come of the recent controversies over genetic testing and the privacy of patient data? Where does the hype over social networks and user-generated content end and the reality begin?”
Article
The Health Care Blog, 13 August 2008

Medicine 2.0: the impact of web 2.0 on healthcare?

Welcome to the 30th edition of Medicine 2.0, the blog carnival devoted to articles that analyze the current and potential impact of web 2.0 technologies on medicine and healthcare.
“Medicine 2.0″ 101
The first question is, of course, “What exactly is Medicine 2.0?”. The second, “Who cares?”. The third, “Why?”
Article
Alvaro, Sharp Brains, 10 August 2008

Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0: Tensions and Controversies in the Field

“Background: The term Web 2.0 became popular following the O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004; however, there are difficulties in its application to health and medicine. Principally, the definition published by O’Reilly is criticized for being too amorphous, where other authors claim that Web 2.0 does not really exist. Despite this skepticism, the online community using Web 2.0 tools for health continues to grow, and the term Medicine 2.0 has entered popular nomenclature.
Objective: This paper aims to establish a clear definition for Medicine 2.0 and delineate literature that is specific to the field. In addition, we propose a framework for categorizing the existing Medicine 2.0 literature and identify key research themes, underdeveloped research areas, as well as the underlying tensions or controversies in Medicine 2.0’s diverse interest groups.
Methods: In the first phase, we employ a thematic analysis of online definitions, that is, the most important linked papers, websites, or blogs in the Medicine 2.0 community itself. In a second phase, this definition is then applied across a series of academic papers to review Medicine 2.0’s core literature base, delineating it from a wider concept of eHealth.
Results: The terms Medicine 2.0 and Health 2.0 were found to be very similar and subsume five major salient themes: (1) the participants involved (doctors, patients, etc); (2) its impact on both traditional and collaborative practices in medicine; (3) its ability to provide personalized health care; (4) its ability to promote ongoing medical education; and (5) its associated method- and tool-related issues, such as potential inaccuracy in enduser-generated content. In comparing definitions of Medicine 2.0 to eHealth, key distinctions are made by the collaborative nature of Medicine 2.0 and its emphasis on personalized health care. However, other elements such as health or medical education remain common for both categories. In addition, this emphasis on personalized health care is not a salient theme within the academic literature. Of 2405 papers originally identified as potentially relevant, we found 56 articles that were exclusively focused on Medicine 2.0 as opposed to wider eHealth discussions. Four major tensions or debates between stakeholders were found in this literature, including (1) the lack of clear Medicine 2.0 definitions, (2) tension due to the loss of control over information as perceived by doctors, (3) the safety issues of inaccurate information, and (4) ownership and privacy issues with the growing body of information created by Medicine 2.0.
Conclusion: This paper is distinguished from previous reviews in that earlier studies mainly introduced specific Medicine 2.0 tools. In addressing the field’s definition via empirical online data, it establishes a literature base and delineates key topics for future research into Medicine 2.0, distinct to that of eHealth.”
Article
Hughes B, Joshi I, Wareham J, J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e23, doi:10.2196/jmir.1056

A Second Life for eHealth: Prospects for the Use of 3-D Virtual Worlds in Clinical Psychology

“The aim of the present paper is to describe the role played by three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds in eHealth applications, addressing some potential advantages and issues related to the use of this emerging medium in clinical practice. Due to the enormous diffusion of the World Wide Web (WWW), telepsychology, and telehealth in general, have become accepted and validated methods for the treatment of many different health care concerns. The introduction of the Web 2.0 has facilitated the development of new forms of collaborative interaction between multiple users based on 3-D virtual worlds. This paper describes the development and implementation of a form of tailored immersive e-therapy called p-health whose key factor is interreality, that is, the creation of a hybrid augmented experience merging physical and virtual worlds. We suggest that compared with conventional telehealth applications such as emails, chat, and videoconferences, the interaction between real and 3-D virtual worlds may convey greater feelings of presence, facilitate the clinical communication process, positively influence group processes and cohesiveness in group-based therapies, and foster higher levels of interpersonal trust between therapists and patients. However, challenges related to the potentially addictive nature of such virtual worlds and questions related to privacy and personal safety will also be discussed.”
Article
Gorini A, Gaggioli A, Vigna C, Riva G, J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e21, doi:10.2196/jmir.1029

ICT, Self-care, PHR’s, and EHR’s: Healthcare and Web 2.0

“Healthcare systems are undergoing a series of complex transformations. Consumers are demanding better services and information that enables provider transparency and a more personalized service delivery model. This shift in healthcare has already begun, whether or not healthcare delivery organizations are ready to respond or not. We are quickly moving away from the traditional models of medicine and towards a patient-centric model with the intent to deliver more efficient care, whilst simultaneously improving patient outcomes.”
Article
Panteleon, Acumeme, 1 August 2008

The future has a way of arriving unannounced: Healthcare and web 2.0

“Healthcare systems the world over are undergoing a series of complex transformations. Consumers are demanding better services and information that enables provider transparency and a more personalized service delivery model.”
Article
Panteleon, Acumeme, 29 July 2008

From Description To Action: The Future of Health 2.0 Tools

“Last week, The Health Care Blog ran two articles about new wiki sites that will develop and continuously update medical information. A wiki is a “content collaborative” that allows anyone (or anyone authorized by the site) to contribute or modify content; Wikipedia is the best known example.”
Article
Brian Klepper, The Health Care Blog, 28 July 2008

Medical ‘Wikipedia’ Is Looking For a Few Good Doctors

“An online medical encyclopedia launching later this year aims to have have the open-source, ever-evolving, comprehensive nature of Wikipedia. But — in a key departure from Wikipedia’s all-comers sensibility — the new encyclopedia will be edited only by those with advanced degrees in medicine and biomedical science.”
Article
Jacob Goldstein, WSJ Health Blog, 25 July 2008

Google vs Wikipedia? No!

“Google just launched its online encyclopaedia project, the so-called Knol. The whole blogosphere is talking about whether it can be a competitor to Wikipedia. Well, let’s put it that way: no, it can’t. An excerpt from their mission statement.”
Article
Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 25 July 2008

Knol and web publishing challenge medical journals’ stronghold

“Yesterday, Google launched Knol, immediately branded as Google’s answer to Wikipedia. As health care adviser to the project, I’ll say a few words about Knol, but focus on how it – and other forms of electronic self-publishing – may signal the end of medical publishing as we have known it.”
Article
Bob Wachter, The Health Care Blog, 25 July 2008