News of Medicine 2.0: WHO, Blogreaders’ Survey and a New Slideshow May 7, 2007

Let’s start with the World Health Organization’s great plan:

If the Wiki process works for compiling an encyclopedia, couldn’t the same approach work for classifying all the diseases and injuries that afflict humankind?

The World Health Organization thinks it can. It is embarking on one of its periodic updates of a system of medical coding called the International Classification of Diseases – the ICD for short – and it wants the world’s help doing it.

Blog Reader’s Project: take this survey to help the community of blogs!

You’ll help bloggers, readers, journalists, politicians and advertisers better understand individual blogs; a cookie in your browser will help bloggers pool data and see how individual blogs relate to other blogs. Your answers will end up in snazzy charts like these. Thank you again for contributing your time and answers.

David Rothman’s collection of social networks for clinicians:

I’ve previously mentioned physician social networks Healtheva and Sermo (both competing for the title of “MySpace for Doctors”), and NurseLinkUp, a social network for nurses.

Victor Castilla at Web 2.0 and Medicine blog created a great presentation of the introduction to medicine 2.0:

I made this presentation taking two presentations as references, the presentation of Dean Giustini about “How Web 2.0 is changing medicine” and the presentation of Bertalan Meskó about “Medicine 2.0″. As we know medicine is a science and art, and to be a doctor means to know not only about medicine.