MyOpenCare: A Social Utility for Healthcare September 24, 2007
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Invention, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Personalized medicine, Web 2.0.trackback
MyOpenCare is the first (?) electronic platform designed to take full advantage of social networking in the healthcare field. Is this going to be the tool of personalized medicine? Of course, you can upload your content, share and discuss medical issues, but let’s see why Edoardo Narduzzi’s site is unique:
- H-Book, a technology that allows for the creation of individual plans in conjunction with relevant digital healthcare content
- WiCare, a tool for the cataloging and sharing of healthcare knowledge.
20% of U.S. patients are already handling their medical data digitally. Our E-Care Diary service will be fully operational by October. A true digital platform that will allow users to post, store, consult, share and exchange their own content electronically, it will prove to be an invaluable tool for study and work for both doctors and medical students alike.
Today, medical organizations that wish to share the contents of their large knowledge bases already utilize structures that are easily adapted to open-source communities. In the near future, electronic healthcare management will be routine and accessed through a multitude of digital formats.
Yes, that’s how personalized medicine and IT have to be connected. I’m going to keep you informed about MyOpenCare.
It seems a good idea and a usefull platform. I’ll use it soon.
MyOpenCare: A Social Utility for Healthcare
New project called MyOpenCare seems that is the first electronic platform designed to take full advantage of social networking in the healthcare field.
I do not believe this: 20% of U.S. patients are already handling their medical data digitally. Because just only 15% US hospitals now have full EMR. (you can find reference yourself)
Here is old data from Wikipedia: As of 2006, adoption of EMRs and other health information technology, such as computer physician order entry (CPOE), has been minimal in the United States. Less than 10% of American hospitals have implemented health information technology,[2] while a mere 16% of primary care physicians use EHRs.[3] The vast majority of healthcare transactions in the United States still take place on paper, a system that has remained unchanged since the 1950s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_medical_record
Thank you, Andy! I’m going to ask the developers to show some reference.
Another reference - Assessing the level of healthcare information technology adoption in the United States: a snapshot.
“For example, 88% of general practitioners in the Netherlands use electronic medical records, but only 17% of their American counterparts do”
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16396679#B18
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