Health 2.0? I love these 2.0 terms April 21, 2007
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Invention, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, Wiki.trackback
If we do have medicine 2.0, why health 2.0 wouldn’t exist? But before saying a word about this term, I must mention Bob Coffield‘s presentation: Healthcare Blogging and Web 2.0. Health 2.0 covers medicine 2.0 and also includes health care law (Come one blawgers!).
A recent article at Hospital Impact about the top Healthcare 2.0 websites made me realize that health pages are far not among the most visited ones. For example, WebMD has an Alexa traffic rank of 1,228; nih.gov has a rank of 300 and it seems to be the best medical site in this list.
Why? Does it mean that health as a subject has not enough importance for users? Or these health-related pages are not properly based on web 2.0? I wouldn’t think so. Sites like WhoIsSick.com or MDjunction.com are real 2.0 pages with communities, interactive functions and the content is absolutely user-generated.
Anyway, if you want to know where to find the headquarters of Health 2.0, just take a deeper look at Health 2.0 Wiki, a real web 2.0 based page.
This wiki has been set up as a service to the community of visionaries, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, policy makers, and professionals who are working on fundamentally redefining the healthcare industry along other “2.0″ lines, such as Web 2.0.
Do not miss this image of the Health 2.0 reform movement created by Scott Shreeve! And if you’d like to contact others interested in this field of medicine, find contributors on the People page. The page of health companies is just being reorganized and improved. Join and improve the list!
Further reading:
The new OWL version is called OWL 1.1, while the improvements are so fundamental over the previous version that it could have been called OWL 2.0. I guess they simply don’t want to use that number until the hype is over.
If it’ll be over ever.
We can only hope for the best, whatever that may be.
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