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Medicine 2.0
by Gunther Eysenbach
Medicine 2.0 is the annual open, international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, also known as the World Congress on Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine, Health, Health Care, and Biomedical Research.The congress is organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring organizations.
Episodes
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PESCA: Developing an Open Source Platform To Bring eHealth To Latin America and the Caribbean
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"Nexthealth" - An Open-Source, Web-Based Tool Determining "What's Next" in the Evolution of Consumer-Centric Care Delivery
Semantic web technology and open source, 'free range' API development provide opportunities to build consumer-centric services beyond current Health 2.0 strata. But the roadmap for true consumer-centric care does not end with semantic web growth - rather it begins there. The authors detail a new...
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Usage of Semantic Web Technologies (Web-3.0) Aiming to Facilitate the Utilisation of Computerized Algorithmic Medicine in Clinical Practice
Introduction: Despite the proven benefits of algorithmic medicine in healthcare and the plethora of implemented medical algorithms solving Medical Computational Problems (MCPs) which are available on the web [1], their usage is limited in everyday clinical practice. This is mainly due to poor...
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Measuring Efficiency of Use in a Web-based EMR Developed for Malawi: Lessons Learned From Performing a Preliminary CogTool Analysis
Background: Developing Web-based electronic medical record (EMR) systems is a fundamental step in enabling resource-constrained healthcare environments to benefit from Web 2.0 applications and services. Towards this goal, we have developed and implemented a Web-based EMR in Malawi, Africa. The…
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User-centered Design of a PHR: Traditional Web Forms vs. Wizard Forms
Background: This work is part of an ongoing feasibility study aimed to design and deploy a PHR system for the citizens of the Province of Trento (NE Italy). The system is intended both to support storing health information important to patients and to improve relationships and communication…
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InfoWell Patient Portal: A Case of Patient-Centred Design
Objectives There is still much to understand about the benefits of Patient Portals and patient access to their electronic health record. Specifically usability best practices for their design and development and insight into what patients really want to see in a Patient Portal. The InfoWell…
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Virtual Health Platform
The interoperability of Electronic Medical Records is a worldwide problem difficult to solve and with lots of resources involved and working on it. There are some standards to interchange information that are being implemented and good advances have been made. But the reality is that the clinical...
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MyOpenCare: Multicontent treatment paths to share medical knowledge and experience
MyOpenCare enables users to manage the creation and sharing of treatment plans and/or approaches in combination with the system's multimedia content. Once the "thread" has been created, the user will then be able to edit the content, i.e. with the inclusion or deletion of text or image. The user...
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Representing and Processing Dynamic Healthcare Workflow
Healthcare workflows are complex and highly variable. Healthcare workflow execution can be affected by any participant in a process, including clinicians, the patient, and the patient's family, as well as environmental factors such as clinician, staff, facility and equipment availability, and...
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RNAO eChampion Program
Key objective: 1. To describe an eHealth champion program and its early outcomes related to supporting eHealth adoption among nurses in health care settings 2. To outline key elements of a successful eHealth champion program (lessons learned) to support eHealth adoption among nurses As part of…
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Consumers are not Patient(s)
For many years Canadians considered the relationship with their physician as fundamentally different from the relationship they had with other professionals. Indeed, Canadians, like people in most other countries, use a special word - "patient" - to characterize their role in the relationship.…
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Patient-Driven Content Creation: Effectively Introducing Wiki Repositories to Virtual Support Communities
Background: Virtual patient communities are an important source of information and social support for many patients (e.g., [1]). Most patient communities use a threaded conversation design such as an email list or discussion forum. This simple design supports highly personalized and empathetic...
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BioTIFF: Articulating Self-Documenting Personal Health Digital Information Artefacts
Although the Web 2.0 world of participatory, web-based collaboration and social networking has just been launched, a Web 3.0 is emerging where ubiquitous data and virally distributed free and open applications for interacting with that data, is leading to new and useful forms of socio-technical...
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The Construction of Expertise in the Age of the Internet: Psychotropic Drug Knowledge in Consumer-Constructed Online Spaces
By universal definition and consensus, information about psychotropic drugs prescribed and used as medicines rests on a highly specialized knowledge base, long seen as the legitimate if not exclusive province of medical experts. This expert knowledge base has, however, become highly contested…
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Not every site needs a wiki: A conceptual framework for health Websites
Introduction In the early days of the World Wide Web, a Website was a Website was a Website. Sites facilitated information exchange in the form of text, images and hyperlinks and, for the most part, differed from each other only in content and aesthetic design features [1]. As the Web and its...
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Hesitative Introduction of E-mail consultations in General Practice
Introduction The Dutch Council for Public Health and Health Care reported in 2005 that 70% of internet users would want to have the opportunity to consult their own general practitioner by e-mail [1]. Since January 1, 2006, general practitioners in the Netherlands are reimbursed 4.50 euro for...
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The potential of social computing for biomedical research on rare diseases
Subject: Results of our ongoing Study on the Potential of Social Computing for Biomedical Research in Rare Diseases. Rationale of our study: Rare Diseases (RDs) affect 6-8 % of the European population, approximately 25 million citizens. There exist between 5000 and 8000 RDs of which 80 % have a...
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Risk 2.0: The future of connected health (Panel)
Over the past decade the Internet has radically changed the dynamics of health, bringing not only new ways of providing information and care for individuals, but also for communicating and managing health matters on a global basis. New applications, services and access to information have...
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Mobile Medicine 2.0
Introduction A new generation of smartphones is enabling high speed internet access via the mobile web browser. In this paper, we examine the unique aspects of using social media applications on mobile platforms and suggest potential uses for medical practice. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)...
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MDPIXX: The Global Medical Images Repository
MDPIXX (http://mdpixx.com) is a multi-media portal for clinical cases, medical images and videos - a convenient way to upload and share medical images and associated information. Physicians, researchers and educators can use MDPIXX within their institution or collaborate and interact with...
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Facilitating Online Collaboration and Communication: A Groups Approach
OntarioMD Groups (www.ontariomd.ca/groups) is an online collaboration tool designed to facilitate communication and workflow among physicians and other healthcare professionals. By providing an external web presence and a private intranet suite of tools, OntarioMD Groups is a versatile way to…
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Creating and Supporting a Community of Practice
Aims: We have investigated the nature of a Community of Practice (CoP), particularly as applied to healthcare and health research teams. Our objectives are to define frameworks for collaboration and provide information systems support for collaborative teams. Although the "CoP" term is widely…
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Stop The World wide web I Want To Get Off.
Background Increasing number of patients are using the Internet for health information (National Statistics 2007). Traditionally professionals have been the information gatekeepers; key questions were around what information patients should be given. Reviews of information on the Internet have…
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New Media Medicine: A Social Network for Doctors and Medical Students
New Media Medicine hosts an online Social Network with over 40,000 registered members. The network primarily caters for UK doctors, medical students and pre-med students applying for medical school. Features include a lively discussion forum with over 500,000 posts, and facilities for members to...
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Web and mobile solution for support of process of care: case of depression
Introduction: In general practice 12% of patients are suffering from depression, which puts depression on the second place of most common chronic diseases in primary care. Results of DEPRES study have shown that only 1,5 % are properly treated - they are either undiagnosed, receive improper...
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Developing of a web-based application to facilitate patient treatment adherence in individuals with sleep apnea treated with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices.
Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is an increasingly common sleep disorder in individuals whose airways obstruct and become frequently apneic during sleep. Persons diagnosed with OSA are at risk for serious health problems such as hypertension, stroke, and arrhythmias including daytime...
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Using Technology to Engage Patients and Clinicians in Electronic Cancer Symptom Assessment and Management: Lessons Learned and Implications for Practice
Many cancer patients struggle with the physical and emotional pain caused by cancer symptoms. Patients and care providers often find it challenging to effectively communicate their symptoms because of minimal use of standardized symptom assessment tools and inconsistent pain and symptom…
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Evaluation of the use of an interactive web-based support program for optimizing the management of Diabetes Mellitus
Background: The introduction of the Internet into medical practice as an information-sharing and communication medium has brought about many opportunities for the management of chronic care. Research has shown that teleconsultation for example is a practical, cost-effective, and reliable way of...
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Methodological Issues and Challenges in eHealth Research Panel
Introduction: Web 2.0 technologies and approaches offer enormous advantages for consumers, health practitioners and eHealth researchers, but they also present challenges, particularly for the ethical conduct of research. Method: A recent systematic review of Internet-mediated research by Lisa...
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Women Wading Through the Web: providing women with the tools to evaluate online health information
Background: Using the Internet, women can now access a broad range of medical information in their own homes with relative anonymity. It is assumed that "greater availability of health information via the Internet will lead to the emergence of more informed patients who are better able to assess...
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Will the development of Web 2.0 technology result in a preference for quantity over quality?
Over the last decade the world has experienced a rapid increase in the number of people using the internet for health information seeking and interaction. This increased demand for internet heath information has led to the emergence of large volumes of unstructured and unregulated medical...
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Empowerment by Participation in Online Support Groups for Patients with Arthritis, Fibromyalgia and Breast Cancer
Background: Ever since the rise of online support groups much is expected of the potential empowering effect of participation for patients [1]. Although many have pointed at this empowering effect [2, 3, 4, 5], little empirical evidence exists for how patients feel empowered. Objectives: We...
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The potential and challenges of Web 2.0 in the education of healthcare professionals.
Web 2.0 technologies have the potential to change the education of healthcare professionals, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, from a didactic one way process, in which information is transferred from the "expert" to the student, to a collaborative and participative process, empowering…
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The use of Web 2.0 in teaching Medical Informatics to postgraduate medical students: first experiences
Introduction Recent technological advances have shifted the core focus of medical education towards more active learning approaches. This shift is certainly related with evolutions on the Internet and the Web, and certainly the emergence of Web 2.0. The latter is being stressed as a promising…
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Medical education and building an on-line reputation in the world of web 2.0
The new websites, services and tools of web 2.0 can play an important role in the future of medical education. These web tools, expert-based community sites, medical blogs and wikis can facilitate the work of physicians, scientists, medical students or medical librarians. The new generation of…
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Medicine 2.0 and Medical Faculty Development
The University of Saskatchewan, like many Canadian Universities, has 800 part-time medical faculty members scattered throughout the province, many of them working in small communities with limited opportunities to attend faculty development workshops in urban locations. Having faculty development...
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Providing Online Access to Point-of-Care Information: Lessons from the OntarioMD.ca Physician Portal
OntarioMD.ca (www.ontariomd.ca) is a Web portal which provides clinicians access to a variety of information resources. The content delivered via the portal is organized and presented according to lessons gleaned through the ongoing engagement of portal users and other stakeholders. Recent…
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Knowledge Exchange Nodes in Public Health: Two successful practical experiences
The importance of the traditional core public health areas of epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, health services administration, and social and behavioural sciences is still paramount. However, public health professionals will be better prepared for the future if they achieve...
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Planning the Development of the Singapore National Health Portal
Background: Singapore is an island city-state in Southeast Asia with a land area of approximately 700 km2 and a multi-ethnic resident population of about 3.6 million. A vibrant global city and a thriving centre of commerce and industry, Singapore's competitive modern economy enjoys high economic...
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Preventive Medicine and the Allen Behavioral Change Model: A Collaboration for Health Behavior Change Using Web-based Interventions
Preventive Medicine and the Allen Behavioral Change Model: A Collaboration for Health Behavior Change Using Web-based Interventions Michael Allen, Ph.D., Julie Dirksen, M.S., Will Thalheimer, Ph.D. Charles P. Bosmajian, Jr., Ph.D., Edward A. Murphy, and David O. Wiebers, M.D. Presenter: Michael...
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Personally Tailored Health Information: A Health 2.0 Approach
At present, strategies used for health tailoring typically require users to complete extensive questionnaires on health and behaviors to tailor sites to health needs. This poses formidable barriers to delivery of tailored messages. Are there alternative means of collecting online behavioral...
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E-epidemiology - adapting epidemiological data collection to the 21st century
We aim to present the prerequisites to use cell phones and SMS as a means of contact in LifeGene. LifeGene (www.lifegene.se) is a Swedish population-based prospective resource on lifestyle, health and genomics. The cohort will include at least 500.000 Swedes, starting with index person 18-49…
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Patient Problem-Solving on the Web: How do Patients Use Web Forums to Cope with Chronic Disease?
Introduction: Patients' use of the web, particularly patient-to-patient (e.g., online fora) ,is playing an influential and transformative role in health care, particularly around chronic diseases (Fox07). We need to understand the specific types of work that patients attempt in online fora and…
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Moderated online social networking for smokers: Content of first posts from 2,562 members
Objective: Social support and group therapy is associated with successful smoking cessation. However, many smokers simply do not have access to, or time to participate in, real-world smoking cessation clinics or support groups. Would the convenience or accessibility of online versions of social...
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Medicine 2.0 is the annual open, international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, also known as the World Congress on Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine, Health, Health Care, and Biomedical Research.The congress is organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring organizations.
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