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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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By Aviv Shachak*, Jamie Meuser, Tupper Bean, Stephen Hockama, Lena Salach, Noah Ivers, Michael Evans
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Not available PESCA: Developing an Open Source Platform to Bring eHealth to Latin America and the Caribbean [5 Cr2 1330 Lorca] View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: medicine20 20)By Julio Lorca, Francisco J Alcazar , Carlos L Sanchez , Miguel Romero-Cuevas , Diego L Lopez , Sergio Ruiz , Pedro Garcia-Fortea,
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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' APIdevelopment provide opportunities to build consumer-centricservices 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 planning model, termed 'neXthealth,'giving stakeholders c…
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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 organisation of MCP information, difficulties in MCP sea…
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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 EMR, built using Ruby on Rails and AJAX, features touch…
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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 between patients and their health care providers. With reg…
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ObjectivesThere 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 Patient Portal is a tool designed to assist patients in the …
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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 information is poorly shared in regions and countries…
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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 will manage his or her content according to a graph-ba…
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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 patient clinical status. Attempts to document healthcare…
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Key objective:1. To describe an eHealth champion program and its early outcomes related to supporting eHealth adoption among nurses in health care settings2. To outline key elements of a successful eHealth champion program (lessons learned) to support eHealth adoption among nurses As part of the Nursing and eHealth Project, funded by the Ontario Mi…
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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. This situation is changing, however, with people taking…
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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 communication [2-3]. In addition, many communities augm…
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By Margaret Hansen*
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Where can teens find health information? A survey of web portals designed for teen health information seekers
By Leanne Bowler*
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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 articulation. The University of Toronto Laboratory for…
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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, for three main reasons. First, to reach a "valid" under…
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IntroductionIn 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 associated technology evolved, exchanges became more comp…
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IntroductionThe 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 e-mail consultations, on the condition that it does not c…
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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 genetic origin. Because of their rarity, these diseases…
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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 permanently altered the relationships between consumers, hea…
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By Benjamin Hughes*, Indra Joshi , Hugh Lemonde
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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) have long been used by clinicians as reference tools(1…
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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 colleagues anywhere in the world for clinical, research, tea…
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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 plan events, share documents, and engage in discussion w…
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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 used, it appears to be minimally understood, as is how to…
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BackgroundIncreasing 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 been focused towards analysing the quality of informatio…
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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 blog, upload photos and create social groups of friend…
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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 treatment or discontinue treatment and are not followed-up…
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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 sleepiness and poor waking cognitive function that incr…
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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 management practices. Paper tools are the norm but they are no…
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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 delivering a worthwhile health care service to diabeti…
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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 Whitehead1 in our panel revealed that the key challenges r…
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By Luis Fernandez Luque*, Ignacio Basagoiti , Elin Johnsen , Randi Karlsen
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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 the risks and benefits of different treatments for th…
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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 information found on the web. This web-based information is …
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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 explored if and how people with arthritis, fibromyalgia and…
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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 the student to be an equal participant in the learning …
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The use of Web 2.0 in teaching Medical Informatics to postgraduate medical students: first experiences
IntroductionRecent 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 tool for advanced support of medicine and medical educati…
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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 web services can change the way medicine is practised a…
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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 personnel travel to remote locations to conduct work…
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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 studies regarding the information needs of clinicians (Davi…
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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 competency in other eight areas: informatics, genomics, c…
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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 growth, high literacy rates, and life expectancy comp…
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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 InterventionsMichael 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 Allen, Ph.D.The prevalence of chronic disease and the pri…
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By Grant Cumming*, Andrew Fowlie , Adrian Baker , Thomas Heneghan , Neil Hamilton , Stefan Agamanolis
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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 information and increasing the availability of highly tail…
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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 years old and their household. This cohort will regularly…
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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 the barriers or facilitators to their goals. This can gu…
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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 support facilitate connection between widely dispersed…
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