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Medicine 2.0
Introduction
The emergence of Web 2.0 starts in 2006—as was exemplified by the decision of Time magazine to choose an anonymous 'You' as 'Person of the Year'—this signifies that Internet users can be in control of the information they have access to. Gone is the era in which a small group of 'experts', who controlled mass media, simply fed us data. It's now time for 'you' to make the rules.This same phenomenon could be extended onto the world of medicine.
In the last couple of years,Internet has played a very significant role in our lives and it will in future.Last year a study in BMJ science journal showed that more than 58% of surveyed people depend on the internet for information about diseases.The researches concluded that as internet access becomes more readily available in outpatient clinics and hospital wards, the web is rapidly becoming an important clinical tool for doctors. The use of web based searching may help doctors to diagnose difficult cases.
Definition
Medicine is derived from mederi "to heal," originally "know the best course for," Medicine 2.0 (Eysenbach's definition): "Medicine 2.0 applications, services and tools are Web-based services for health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers, that use Web 2.0 technologies and/or semantic web and virtual-reality tools, to enable and facilitate specifically social networking, participation, apomediation, collaboration, and openness within and between these user groups." (Source: Eysenbach G. Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness. J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e22 URL: http://www.jmir.org/2008/3/e22/)
Tools of Medicine 2.0
Sources
- Eysenbach G. Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness. J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e22 URL: http://www.jmir.org/2008/3/e22/
- Rc Shetty: Web Driven Technologies to Help the Busy Cardiothoracic Surgical Practice and Offer Hope for the Development of Similar Portals in Other Specialities with Benefit to Patients.Technology and Health Care 13 (2005) 353–452 353 IOS Press.Special Issue: MedNet 2005 - New Tasks in Internet Use in Health Care.
- Rahul Shetty: Portable Digital Personal Health Record : To Bridge the Digital gap in Medical Information Storage of Individuals with Personal Health Records in Flash Drives. The Internet Journal of Health. 2007. Volume 5 Number 2.
- Rahul Shetty :Environmental Scan of Health Records in Digital Format Today and Bridging the Gap With Electronic Personal Health Records of Future.e-Health 2007: Paths to Transformation.Quebec City,QC May 2007
- Rahul Shetty:Perspectives on Personal Health Record.Letter to Editor BMJ 2007; 335: 330-333
- Rahul Shetty:Semantic web 2.0.EDITORIALS: Dean Giustini How Web 2.0 is changing medicine.BMJ 2006; 333: 1283-1284
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