participatory medicine; health 2.0

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Health 2.0 Tools: Recommendations from a Net-Friendly Doc

Kathleen O'Malley | April 11, 2012

This week in ScienceRoll, Dr. Bertalan Meskó blogs about several links that the e-patient community will find interesting: IBM Clinical Genomics Helps with Clinical Decision Making Haifa, Israel has developed a new clinical decision support tool that correlates a patients’ unique disease profile against various clinical guidelines and a wide range of previously acquired clinical [...]

Participatory Medicine: Blending Traditional Medicine with “Health 2.0″

Charlie Smith | June 16, 2009

Tom Davenport, in a Harvard Business Publishing Blog post, does a nice job of discussing the merging of “Health 2.0″, the aggregate of online communities, wiki’s, bloggers, and tweets, with the role of traditional medical providers. He asks whether, if you get seriously ill, you will rely solely on colleagues online or whether you’ll seek out a [...]