Web 2.0, the Future of Medicine and Healthcare
March 8, 2008 – 23:56 by Dani Iswara. Words count: 437.Last updated: Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 6:40.
Medicine 2.0, a collaboration of Web 2.0 + medicine, will be the future of medicine and healthcare. Internationally and academically, the term of Medicine 2.0 has a wider concept.
Probably fewer clinicians will know about Web 2.0 concept. At least they have used medical / health-related blogs, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), wikis, podcasts, mail list, forum or other Internet-based media as a second life (virtual environment).
Internet technologies have a new way to collaborate mass user via interactive applications and virtual social networking. Users can create, manage and share their content using open web standard, friendly user interface / web browser.
Medical community, patients, physicians, technicians are important subject of these Medicine 2.0 technologies. They can provide ubiquitous (any time, any place, any device) medical / health-related information.
From the theme of Medicine 2.0 Congress 2008, Medicine 2.0 will strive for an interdisciplinary (health care, computer sciences, social sciences, business, engineering) including researcher, practitioner and business experts.
Topics of the congress are:
- Blogs
- Building virtual communities and social networking applications for health professionals
- Building virtual communities and social networking applications for patients and consumers
- Business models in a Web 2.0 environment
- Collaborative biomedical research, academic / scholarly communication, publishing and peer review
- Consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship and sociotechnical issues
- Ethical & legal issues, confidentiality and privacy
- Health information on the web: supply and demand
- Innovative RSS / XML applications
- Personal health records and patient portals
- Public e-health, population health technologies, surveillance
- Search, collaborative filtering and recommended technologies
- Semantic Web (“Web 3.0″) applications
- The nature and dynamics of social networks in health
- Usability and human factors on the web
- Virtual (3D) environments, Second Life
- Web 2.0 approaches for behaviour change, public health and biosurveillance
- Web 2.0 approaches for clinical practice, clinical research, quality monitoring
- Web 2.0-based medical education and learning
- Wikis
- Youth and Digital Learning
- other
Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH (see complete profile on his old homepage) mentioned the keywords of Medicine 2.0 (see graphic) are:
- Social Networking,
- Participation,
- Apomediation,
- Collaboration, and
- Openness
Off course, evaluation and research are still needed to establish best practice. How Medicine 2.0 boost medical teaching and learning productivity. How Medicine 2.0 support continuing medical education / professional development (CME / CPD) and patient education.
Medical practitioners and medical educators cannot afford to ignore these future of medicine and healthcare [?]. 
Also read Medicine 2.0 special page from Bertalan Mesko and Medicine 2.0 from Huda Toriq (Indonesian).
Dani Iswara, mail me: [myfirstnamelastname]@gmail.com or use contact form.
Comment by okanegara on March 9, 2008 at 01:20:07
using Opera 9.25 on Windows XP
dan…thanx for blogwalking to my premature blog.
great succes for dani…
Comment by Dani Iswara on March 9, 2008 at 02:01:08
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okanegara:
hello bli oka..thank you for coming..
visitors, Oka Negara will share reproduction and sexual health information on his blog..
Comment by Nico on March 9, 2008 at 13:52:43
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Masih ga mudeng ni mas dgn medicine 2.0, itu maksudnya nyediai tools jg buat para blogger ya,he2 maklum wong ndeso ndak ngerti bhs bule.
Comment by dani iswara on March 9, 2008 at 15:31:00
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Nico:
buat saya, apapun istilahnya..yg penting konsep berbaginya..eh komenku di blognya mas nico masi masuk moderasi lho..
Comment by Nico on March 9, 2008 at 16:22:51
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Ups iya,kok ndak sadar ya udah 2 comment, pertamax pula…hi2,sori mas,td kbetulan dari nyunat jadi belum ngecek blog. Thanx for visit my blog ya. Mohon masukannya ya buat blog-ku yg msh preterm ini (ngikut istilahnya mas oka)
Comment by imsuryawan on March 10, 2008 at 08:16:42
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Menarik! Bisa diterapkan kah di Indonesia?
Comment by artana on March 10, 2008 at 12:00:10
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Sebuah step baru.
Comment by dani on March 10, 2008 at 13:28:20
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#6:
bbrp diantara temen2 bloger kesehatan-kedokteran mungkin malah sudah ada yg menerapkan, mis. blog, cms, chat sbg e-learning, telemedicine, koneksi antar perguruan tinggi yg inheren, berbagi soal+jawaban ujian kompetensi di Internet, dll
#7:
sesama pemula hrs bagi2 cerita bli